Re: First Impressions on Using Alphora's Dataphor
From: pstnotpd <schoenmakers_at_tpd.tno.nl>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:38:07 +0200
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:38:07 +0200
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Laconic2 wrote:
> The story I heard was that Betamax delivered a better signal, but you
> couldn't fit a standard length movie on one cassette.
> The hassle of managing that, for the consumer, was the difference. And for
> renters, it was even worse.
Sorry, confused it with the Philips V2000 format.
> For the life of me, I've never been able to grasp why
> strong typing didn't catch on in the C and C++ languages.
My guess is that the use of pointers and casting basically defeats
typing anyway. (I've had my share of debugging sessions where people got
these wrong)
Received on Wed Sep 01 2004 - 15:38:07 CEST