"Strong typing vs. strong testing"

[RG]

In article <87tyl63cag.fsf at mail.geddis.org>,
 Don Geddis <don at geddis.org> wrote:

> Keith Thompson <kst-u at mib.org> wrote on Thu, 30 Sep 2010:
> > RG <rNOSPAMon at flownet.com> writes:
> >> You're missing a lot of context.  I'm not trying to criticize C, just to 
> >> refute a false claim that was made about it.
> > Can you cite the article that made this false claim, and exactly what
> > the false claim was?
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/431925448da59481
> 
>         Message-ID: 
>         <0497e39d-6bd1-429d-a86f-f4c89babe1a4 at u31g2000pru.googlegroups.com>
>         From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd at aol.com>
>         Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
> 
>         [...]
>         in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
>         work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. If someone
>         tries to call it incorrectly it is a compile error.
>         [...]
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> _
> Don Geddis                  http://don.geddis.org/               
> don at geddis.org

Thanks, Don.

rg