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Re: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing

• To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Subject: Re: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing
• From: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:45:49 +1300
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20030213095526.03075828@m...> (SeanMcGrath's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:01:44 +0000")
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>>>>> "Sean" == Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...> writes:

    Sean> It always amuses me to see developers using languages like
    Sean> Java spend so much time typing their variables/objects at
    Sean> declare time, only to spend the same amount of time telling
    Sean> the system what type they are when they come out of hash
    Sean> tables and so on.

Try a language with generics, like Eiffel. That's completely
different.

-- 
Regards,

Berend. (-:

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