From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A bit further toward the flamewar
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:26:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r52hc6hu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20111013112709.GA28078@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan
Hello troll! ;-)
rixed@happyleptic.org skribis:
> I fail to see why Scheme is intrinsically safer than C
Scheme is strongly, though dynamically typed. A string is a string, a
number is a number, and they cannot change types anyhow.
C is weakly, though statically typed. A pointer is a pointer, and it
can point to anything, or be uninitialized. A pointer is also a number,
and so it can be forged. Any object can be cast in almost any other
object.
And of course, this is not to mention the many other ways to shoot
oneself in the foot–manual memory management being among the most
prominent–nor the many missing features that prevent higher-level
programming.
My contribution to feeding the troll. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 14:54 Why is guile still so slow? John Lewis
2011-10-12 15:39 ` rixed
2011-10-12 18:56 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2011-10-12 22:40 ` rixed
2011-10-12 23:56 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2011-10-13 6:23 ` rixed
2011-10-13 10:22 ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-13 11:27 ` A bit further toward the flamewar rixed
2011-10-13 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2011-10-13 15:20 ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-13 16:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-13 18:37 ` Mike Gran
2011-10-13 21:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-13 22:08 ` dskr
2011-10-14 1:07 ` Ian Price
2011-10-14 8:40 ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-14 16:23 ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-15 8:44 ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-14 8:28 ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-14 16:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-14 17:26 ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-13 19:16 ` Hans Aberg
2011-10-14 9:57 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2011-10-13 17:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-13 18:54 ` rixed
2011-10-13 21:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-13 21:58 ` Hans Aberg
2011-10-14 9:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-14 10:53 ` Hans Aberg
2011-10-14 9:37 ` rixed
2011-10-14 20:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-12 15:52 ` Why is guile still so slow? Andy Wingo
2011-10-12 16:19 ` John Lewis
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