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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Advantages of C
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:

> On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 1:49:11 PM UTC-5, gwowen wrote:
>> ... says the man who implemented an entire container library using void*
>> pointers and essentially no type checking.
>
> On many platforms, all data pointers have the same representation;
> nice implementations for such platforms allow a void** to be used to
> manipulate any of them without regard for the target data type, but
> reliable support for such things seems to have become unfashionable.

???

> LISP used to apply type checking to ensure that use of an improper type
> wouldn't allow execution to continue with erroneous behavior.  Modern C
> compilers use their type systems to find "optimizations" that will cause
> erroneous behavior.

???