What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

John W. Kennedy jwkenne at attglobal.net
Tue May 24 09:30:10 EDT 2005


alex goldman wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Strong
>>typing has been a feature of mainstream programming languages since the
>>late 1950's.
> 
> 
> Is Fortran a strongly typed language? I don't think so. Strong typing has
> been invented in the 70's, if I'm not mistaken, when ML was invented, but
> strong typing has never been mainstream.

I begin to believe that I have been reading naughty references, and that 
I should rather have said "statically typed".

I am not familiar with modern Fortran. Surely it at least has argument 
prototyping by now?

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is 
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. 
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
   -- C. S. Lewis.  "An Experiment in Criticism"



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