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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@...>

To: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@...>

Cc: <linux-audio-user@...>

Subject: Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 3:50 pm

Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:10:46PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

quoted text

> > If you get serious about programming, its important to
> > know more than just C and C++. For many tasks, garbage
> > collected languages with stricter type systems than C
> > and C++ are a better fit. Langauges like Python, Ruby,
> > Ocaml and Haskell. Even Java!!!
>
> You say stricter type system, then Python and Ruby in the next
> sentence. Does not compute. ;)
>

All of these terms tend to be used fairly loosely in practice, so there
is certainly a lot of room for disagreement, but Python, in particular,
has a fairly strict type system. It is dynamic (execution-time)
checking, rather than static (compile-time) checking, but you *will* get
a big, fat exception if you get your types wrong. So it's not quite
such a non-sequitur as you imply. And it's certainly stricter type
checking than e.g. in C.

Nick

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[LAU] OT: C or C++?, Josh Lawrence, (Wed Oct 13, 8:42 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Josh Lawrence, (Fri Oct 15, 12:26 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Ken Restivo, (Thu Oct 21, 12:12 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Atte André Jensen, (Mon Oct 18, 10:25 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, James Morris, (Thu Oct 14, 1:30 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 1:17 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Josh Lawrence, (Thu Oct 14, 3:06 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 4:17 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Ng Oon-Ee, (Thu Oct 14, 5:49 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 8:40 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Tim Clewlow, (Thu Oct 14, 12:28 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 1:05 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Tim Clewlow, (Thu Oct 14, 1:37 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, david, (Thu Oct 14, 8:50 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Arnold Krille, (Wed Oct 13, 11:00 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, , (Wed Oct 13, 10:03 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Folderol, (Wed Oct 13, 10:11 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, , (Wed Oct 13, 10:55 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Robin Gareus, (Wed Oct 13, 10:32 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Bjoern Lindig, (Thu Oct 14, 6:25 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Robin Gareus, (Thu Oct 14, 7:23 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Philipp Überbacher, (Thu Oct 14, 3:17 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Gabriel M. Beddingfield, (Wed Oct 13, 9:16 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 1:11 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Joshua Boyd, (Thu Oct 14, 3:27 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 8:14 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Erik de Castro Lopo, (Thu Oct 14, 8:44 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Chris Cannam, (Fri Oct 15, 9:26 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), R. Mattes, (Fri Oct 15, 9:38 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Chris Cannam, (Fri Oct 15, 10:18 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Erik de Castro Lopo, (Fri Oct 15, 10:51 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Chris Cannam, (Fri Oct 15, 11:05 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Philipp Überbacher, (Fri Oct 15, 6:30 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: 2 minute intro to type systems (was C or C++?), Harry Van Haaren, (Thu Oct 14, 9:23 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Bernardo Barros, (Thu Oct 14, 4:08 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Nick Dokos, (Thu Oct 14, 3:50 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Gabriel M. Beddingfield, (Thu Oct 14, 3:55 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, R. Mattes, (Thu Oct 14, 4:39 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Gabriel M. Beddingfield, (Thu Oct 14, 5:02 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Kris Calabio, (Thu Oct 14, 5:22 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Philipp Überbacher, (Thu Oct 14, 6:10 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, R. Mattes, (Thu Oct 14, 8:36 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Philipp Überbacher, (Fri Oct 15, 7:13 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Simon Wise, (Fri Oct 15, 11:28 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, R. Mattes, (Fri Oct 15, 9:31 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Dave Phillips, (Fri Oct 15, 10:23 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, James Morris, (Fri Oct 15, 7:43 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, david, (Fri Oct 15, 7:21 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Philipp Überbacher, (Fri Oct 15, 7:45 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, david, (Sun Oct 17, 8:53 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Kris Calabio, (Thu Oct 14, 8:05 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Bernardo Barros, (Thu Oct 14, 8:09 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Ken Restivo, (Thu Oct 21, 12:17 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Folderol, (Thu Oct 14, 9:22 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Veronica Merryfield, (Thu Oct 14, 8:40 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Orcan Ogetbil, (Thu Oct 14, 8:23 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, R. Mattes, (Thu Oct 14, 8:52 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Philipp Überbacher, (Fri Oct 15, 6:55 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, , (Thu Oct 14, 9:20 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Brett McCoy, (Thu Oct 14, 9:16 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Orcan Ogetbil, (Thu Oct 14, 9:05 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, R. Mattes, (Thu Oct 14, 9:19 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Orcan Ogetbil, (Thu Oct 14, 9:43 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Chris Cannam, (Thu Oct 14, 9:23 am)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Gabriel M. Beddingfield, (Thu Oct 14, 2:50 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Charles , (Wed Oct 13, 10:11 pm)

Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?, Charles Henry, (Wed Oct 13, 10:07 pm)