What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Thu May 26 22:13:40 EDT 2005


"Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:
> Joe: lang x is strongly typed
> Dave: you mean statically typed?
> John: no no, that's weakly typed.
> Mike: actually, it is dynamically typed!

I used to have a bunch of comp sci questions I would ask interview victims.  
One of them was "what does it mean when a language is strongly typed?"  I 
once had somebody tell me it meant the language had long variable names, 
and thus took a lot of typing.



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