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The Importance of Type Safety

From: alphonce at cse.Buffalo.EDU (Carl Alphonce)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:16:39 -0400

Brad Andrews wrote:

Perhaps we will get to a world where all the "management overhead"  
doesn't matter, but until then, the extra cost for type safety should  
be weighed against other factors, not just discounted out of hand.


I usually just lurk on this list, but in this case I'll bite - what is the cost 
of type safety that you're concerned about?

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