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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