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Comment by catnaroek

A more useful term is “sound”: does the type system protect the language's basic abstractions?

(0) Standard ML: Yes.

(1) Java: No, but dynamic checks are used to patch the type soundness holes.

(2) C: No, and if you do anything wrong, may God help you.

parent catnaroek 10 years ago

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