Re: [SC-L] The Importance of Type Safety

2009-03-24 Thread Jeremy Epstein
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

Re: [SC-L] The Importance of Type Safety

2009-03-23 Thread Carl Alphonce
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