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   Robert A Duff to Our esteemed moderator   
   Re: behavior-preserving optimization in    
   19 May 09 21:01:11   
   
   From: bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com   
      
   Our esteemed moderator writes:   
      
   > [I'd rather use a linker that diagnoses type mismatches.  It's not   
   > exactly a new idea; I know one that did that in 1976. -John]   
      
   I'd rather use a language that catches such problems at compile time.   
   It doesn't really need to be done by the linker.  Ada, Modula-2, and   
   many others come to mind...   
      
   - Bob   
      
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