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Programming and Programming Languages Tuesday, Version: December 2nd, 2014

http://papl.cs.brown.edu/2014/index.html

17.5 Types Versus Safety

If you have ever used the phrases “strong typing” or “weak typing”, define them.

That’s what I thought. But thank you for playing.

Indeed, the phrases are not only poorly defined, they are also wrong, because the problem is not with the “strength” of the type checker but rather with the nature of the run-time system that backs them.




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