"Strong typing vs. strong testing"

[Seebs]

On 2010-10-01, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com> wrote:
> Seebs <usenet-nospam at seebs.net> writes:
>> The obvious simple maximum() in C will not raise an exception nor return
>> something which isn't an int in any program which is not on its face
>> invalid in the call.  This is by definite contrast with several of the
>> interpreted languages, 

> This has nothing to do with the fact that these languages have
> implementations using the interpreter pattern instead of a compiler.

True, but it's a good enough statistical correlation to serve in many
cases.

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