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Fixing a problem that shouldn't be

Posted Apr 8, 2005 4:35 UTC (Fri) by etrusco (guest, #4227)
Parent article: The __nocast attribute

Again and again and again: I can't believe (so many) people prefer to play these catch-and-run (*) games rather than use a strong typed language...

(*) I agree I'm lacking a proper metaphor ;) But as you may have noticed English isn't my native language...

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Posted Apr 9, 2005 11:15 UTC (Sat) by fergal (subscriber, #602) [Link]

While I dislike C and like strongly typed languages, I'm kinda curious which particular pan-platform, strongly typed langauge you'd recommend for the rewrite of >100MB of hardware banging source code?