bye...
Ned Konz
ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon Mar 10 16:41:12 UTC 2003
On Monday 10 March 2003 08:30 am, Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent)
wrote:
> I suggest that we not confuse "strong typing" with "static typing".
> Smalltalk is not statically typed, but it is strongly typed. Java
> and C++ (to the best of my knowledge) are both strongly and
> statically typed.
>
> In my opinion
>
> "Strong typing" is good,
> "Static typing" is bad,
> "Garbage collection" is good
>
> for the types of work I usually do. Your mileage may vary.
C++ is not usually strongly typed. There is some support for type IDs
but they aren't universal.
I'm still amazed that there aren't more people using garbage
collectors with C++, considering that there are some excellent ones
available.
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