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RE: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:37:15 +0000
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B54CA1@R...>

Dare,

I'm intrigued. How would you define "weak typing"?

Sean

At 12:05 12/02/2003 -0800, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>I'm impressed by the fact that neither the interviewer nor the
>interviewer seem to be able to tell the difference between strong vs.
>weak typing and static vs. dynamic typing. It is especially amusing to
>see someone claim that Smalltalk is "weakly typed".
>
>As for what this argument has to do with the XML arguments on strong vs.
>weak typing I'd assumed it was obvious. The people who process XML with
>strongly typed languages (e.g. Java & C# folks) are all about strongly
>typed XML while those who process it with weakly typed languages (Perl &
>Python folks) are for weak typing in XML. Or at least that has been the
>case in the XML-DEV discussions I've seen.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@p...]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:20 AM
>To: xml-dev@l...
>Subject:  Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing
>
>
>An interesting interview with the great man himself, Guido van Rossum,
>creator of Python. http://www.artima.com/intv/strongweak.html
>
>Is the strong/weak/runtime typing argument over XML any different from
>that debate in programming languages.
>
>I dunno.
>
>Sean
>
>
>http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
>
>
>
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