C Strongly Typed

Peter C. Bahrs pcb at gator.cacs.usl.edu
Thu Mar 8 16:09:10 AEST 1990


It is my understanding that the most important reasons that C AND Pascal
are not strongly typed is due to unions and variant records.

Assigning a character to an integer in C does not constitute a weakly typed
language.  Strongly typed languages want to be able to tell what a thing is, 
not what its value is.


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