[PRL] Benjamin Pierce: Types Considered Harmful

[William D Clinger]

Dave Herman wrote:
> The weirdest part was when he claimed that one of the big issues people
> have with type systems is performance. Does anyone actually say this?

Yes, and this view was extremely influential for about
15 years.  See Brian Kernighan's essay on "Why Pascal
is Not My Favorite Programming Language", online at
http://pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl/~armo/homepage/amideveloper/dev/nopascal.pdf

Will