Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!pyramid!amdahl!drivax!holloway From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Check the Arg Count Message-ID: <745@drivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 12:11:53 EST Article-I.D.: drivax.745 Posted: Fri Jan 9 12:11:53 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 01:39:26 EST References: <3226@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1635@enea.UUCP> Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Lines: 15 In article <1635@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) writes: >Well, I may missunderstand what you mean, but to me it seems that you are >trying to say that type-checking languages like Pascal, Ada etc are inferior >to languages that are more relaxed at this point, like C. Also you seem >to imply that type checking is only for bad programmers. Let the compiler do the type checking... so long as it stays there. Pascal puts in a lot of code for array overruns, etc., that are unnecessary for a well-designed program. You could turn all this off on the Pascal I learned on, which made it tolerable. But I don't want anything in the program I didn't put there -- if I'd wanted subscript checking, I would have added it. -- ....!ucbvax!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!holloway "What do you mean, 'almost dead'?" "Well, when you stop breathing, and moving around, and seeing things... that kind of almost dead."