Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP and memory management

From: James A. Robertson (jarober_at_gosmalltalk.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:27:23 -0400

On 13 Aug 2004 15:40:45 -0700, igouy@yahoo.com (Isaac Gouy) wrote:

>James A. Robertson <jarober@gosmalltalk.com> wrote in message news:<j4iph0p4bltp69p3fc33henfon06ql36en@4ax.com>...
>
>> >Was that the cause of every VW7.2 MNU fixed in VW7.2.1 - sending to nil?
>> The ones I know of? Yes.
>The fix descriptions give me a different impression.
>afaict 85% are changes to functionality/behaviour/appearance.
>afaict ~5% we might expect to have found with static checks.
>(For ~10% we'd have to investigate more.)
>
>> Sending the wrong object as an argument, or
>> the wrong message to some object is just... rare
>47131 DNU sending #name to a String; 47066 missing method.
>

If we are going to pull anecdotal evidence out, I can prove anything.

>And VW has an excellent engineering team, and Smalltalk is a
>tremendous programming tool.

See my main response to this whole thread here:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3269869837
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