Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

On Aug 21, 2007, at 23:27 , Hugh Perkins wrote:

Hmmm, that's interesting. I'd never considered lack of typing to be a good thing for system robustness before!

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