[Info-vax] Error Messages in Basic - %BASIC-E-PARMODNOT, mode for parameter <n> of routine <procedure-name> not as declared

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-09, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 10:45:46 AM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>> 
>> Oh, no, I've been exposed!  I was posing as a "professional programmer" 
>> when I guess I'm really not a "professional programmer".
>> 
>
> No offense was intended but IMHO "option type=explicit" pushes VMS-BASIC (or
> whatever it is called these days) into the direction of strongly typed
> languages like C.
>

I was initially amused that you used the words "strongly typed" to
describe C (and was going to say as much), but thinking about it I suppose,
compared to Basic, you are probably right to say that provided you think
of it as a relative, not absolute, definition.

Interesting. My personal weak to strongly typed range of languages list
now goes like this, where languages to the right are stronger than
languages to the left:

Macro-32, Basic, C, Pascal (and other Wirth style languages), Ada.

Simon.

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