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_at_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 Tue Nov 04 2003 - 06:33:21 CET

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