
Sept. 24, 2009
6:31 p.m.
On 09/25/2009 02:52 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:06:22 -0400 Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that the idea that there is a continuum from weak typing to strong typing is useful.
I think it's fundamentally broken, at least as badly as the notion of a political spectrum from liberal to conservative. The problem with both of those is that there's more than one axis involved.
Yes, we learned at the university: strong <-> weak static <-> dynamic complete <-> with holes However, these axis aren't completely independent. At one slide our professor showed us a complex diagram of this not really 3D space that included merks for some languages as examples. -panzi