On 23 Aug 2008, at 23:10, Tim Newsham wrote:
I guess I didn't express my point very clearly... That C
programmers apparently don't realise that a type system that's
sound will give them something -- i.e. their programmer won't ever
segfault. I wonder when we try to advertise Haskell if we should
be saying "we can give you programs that never segfault", instead
of "we have a strong type system".
That would be overpromissing. You can definitely get segfaults in
Haskell. The obvious example being
http://codepad.org/Q8cgS6x8
but many less contrived and more unexpected examples arise naturally
(unfortunately).
By the way, the Java camp has (correctly) been touting this argument
for quite a while.
I'd be interested to see your other examples -- because that error is
not happening in Haskell! You can't argue that Haskell doesn't give
you no segfaults, because you can embed a C segfault within Haskell.
Bob
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