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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie
>
> But the fact that there are errors you can't catch until
> runtime does not 
> imply that you shouldn't catch other errors before running a
> program.  

Contrariwise, the fact that there exist errors you can catch at
compile time does not imply they should be caught. Trading machine
efficiency for programmer efficiency is a spectacularly bad idea
given what we know about the bottlenecks in developing software
systems. 

Bill de hÓra

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