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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Mesa is a dreadful language?
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 20:03:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 20:03:33 1987
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> As for type safety...  Would
> you have us go the C route, where loophole is unnecessary because
> everything is an int?

How many years has it been since you used C?  Modern C is fairly strongly
typed, and getting more so all the time.  (Note that if you are using a
PCC-based compiler, you are working with an implementation that is nearly
ten years old.)  (If it's the one in 4.3BSD, it's also seriously buggy.)
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Mars must wait -- we have un-         Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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