Languages are strongly typed in an effort to find programming errors at compile time, not, as some would believe, to cause compile errors at programming time.
From CodingConventions.doc for the Windows Mobile code base
January 2008
[I ran across this today at work and had to share. I know probably only a handful of my readers will get it but I thought it was so funny. Yeah, I’m a geek.–Joe]
Lol… that’s great…
Heh.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I prefer errors to appear when I compile, not at run time, especially when debugging can be a bitch.
I prefer assembly language.
Compilers are for wimps ….
“I prefer assembly language.
Compilers are for wimps ….”
Anyone who needs more than a hex editor is just putting on airs — an assembler is just a wanna be compiler.