Olin Lathrop wrote:

> No they didn't.  Both Algol and Pascal predated C.  The concept of strong
> type checking had already been tried and its advantages understood.  The
> only reason for deliberately weakening type checking is that the designers
> of C found it irritating.  The only reason they would think that is if they
> didn't "get it" and were irresponsible programmers.

Harsh words for fundamental researchers for an implementation language that
succeeded where many failed. DMR posts emails on several newsgroups
ask him if that was why he made the choices they did.

w..
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