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3 Nov 2024 01:06:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Thinking about Languages again  
From: Warp
Date: 27 Mar 2008 14:10:47
Message: <47ebf137@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Basically, there are any number of people who say "fast is better than 
> correct" because they've never built programs where incorrectness costs 
> money or lives.

  Oh, garbage collection is the Holy Grail of programming which, magically,
makes programs "correct". Yeah. ;)

> You can't accidentally declare the function taking a float in the 
> headers and an integer in the body and have mysterious type crashes at 
> runtime in spite of your static typing.

  C# doesn't check at compile time that all your types match?

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                                                          - Warp


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