From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-23T03:46:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

On 9/22/05, Isaac Gouy <igouy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> -snip-
> > line one is an error.
> > line two core dumps.
> > line three will hang your machine.
>
> Humbly suggest that C is not the poster child for static type checking
> :-)
> iirc C is not even considered to be type safe.

Humbly suggest that the same applies to Java (java.lang.Object,
anyone?), C++, and even C#. The only type safe statically checked
language that I've used is Ada.

C is statically checked and weakly typed. Ara's point remains the same
-- the compiler doesn't complain about these very *obvious*
programming errors.

-austin
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