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From: ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 13:47:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nnd$1dfb707b$1866b51a@6cddbe3899d992f0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <t79ab6$a4v$1@gioia.aioe.org>

As someone who has been programming since 1966 I used several different 
languages, Algol 60, Fortran, Basic, C/C++ and Ada, I like using strong 
types because the most ugly faults you can create are the ones where you 
by accident use different types in the input or the output of a formula. 
Such a fault can work through the complete program an result in very 
tough error searching. Even when the basic failure is using an integer 
instead of an real.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-02 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-02  3:21 who needs types? Types makes code ugly Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-06-02  8:00 ` Doctor Who
2022-06-02  8:37   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-02 10:08     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-06-02 10:39       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-02 13:22     ` Stéphane Rivière
2022-06-06 23:26     ` Jerry
2022-06-02 10:47 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-06-02 11:47 ` ldries46 [this message]
2022-06-02 15:02   ` Ben
2022-06-02 22:10     ` John Perry
2022-06-03  0:02       ` Ben
2022-06-03  3:37         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2022-06-03 18:13           ` Ben
2022-06-03 18:34             ` Niklas Holsti
2022-06-03 20:27               ` John Perry
2022-06-03 20:56               ` Ben
2022-06-04  0:28               ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-04 12:05                 ` What's new in Ada 2022? (was: Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.) Dirk Craeynest
2022-06-17 17:33                 ` who needs types? Types makes code ugly Wesley Pan
2022-06-17 20:46                   ` Paul Rubin
2022-06-18  2:06                   ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-18 10:29                     ` Dirk Craeynest
2022-06-18 22:16                       ` Paul Rubin
2022-06-20 21:40                       ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-02 17:28 ` Keith Thompson
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