This is kind of a funny discussion, to those of us over a certain
age. When I was a young-un :-), the argument was that you couldn't
write real software in a high level language like C because it was
too inefficient compared to assembly language, and you lost
flexibility since you didn't have
Brad Andrews wrote:
Perhaps we will get to a world where all the management overhead
doesn't matter, but until then, the extra cost for type safety should
be weighed against other factors, not just discounted out of hand.
I usually just lurk on this list, but in this case I'll bite - what