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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
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Posted: Fri Jan  9 12:11:53 1987
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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.
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