27 Mar
2007
27 Mar
'07
1:32 a.m.
Casey Hawthorne wrote:
You may find the following comment interesting.
"The mythos of type systems is that they help the programmer. But the reality is compiler and hardware design. Not simply that a fantasy type system is harder to implement, but that a restricted language is easier to implement."
page 189 "Theoretical Introduction to Programming" Bruce Mills Springer 2006
I don't know if he bases his conclusions on a study or not.
Is this section about performance? Otherwise, it makes almost no sense.