[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> Having variable type determined by variable name is definitely
> out of fashion. The only other language i know doing that is
> Fortran (Fortran is first letter while Basic is suffix but
> same concept).
>

Give it a few years and someone will suggest it as a bold new
concept for Rust or whatever is the fashion at that time... :-)

> But type inference is definitely in fashion.
>

Unless you are writing software that can kill people if it goes wrong.

There's always going to be a place for more formal and traditional
techniques when writing safety-critical software.

Simon.

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