Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Mesa is a dreadful language? Message-ID: <8268@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 20:03:33 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.8268 Posted: Mon Jul 6 20:03:33 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jul-87 20:03:33 EDT References:Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > 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.) -- Mars must wait -- we have un- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology finished business on the Moon. {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry