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Re: Introducing PlayDB (The Model, The Language, The DBMS)

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 05:33:21 GMT
Message-ID: <xtGpb.76586$ao4.215941@attbi_s51> 





"Tony Douglas" <tonyisyourpal_at_netscape.net> wrote in message news:bcb8c360.0311031031.2f916474_at_posting.google.com...


> 85% of programming errors are type

> errors; typelessness doesn't appeal to me one jot with that particular

> (long-standing) statistic around.




Do you have a citation for that statistic? I'd be very interested to
read any studies supporting that claim. (Note that I'm not particularly
suspicious of the claim per se; I'm a strong advocate of static typing.)




Marshall
Received on Mon Nov 03 2003 - 23:33:21 CST












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