[ale] On Programming and Programming Langauges

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Fri Sep 17 12:38:40 EDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 12:01 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I'm curious about the phrase "type system"?  Is that relatively new?

The phrase itself might be, but the concept itself certainly isn't.  And
much like many things, type systems can be circumvented or sidestepped
in a number of ways.  For example, GLib (through GObject) implements an
object-oriented type system that goes far beyond what stock C99 will
give you...

	--- Mike



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