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A central idea of some programming languages [28, 57, 58] is to provide protection for the user against (inadvertantly) making meaningless data references. The effects of such errors are implementation dependent and can not be determined by reasoning within the programming language itself. This makes debugging difficult and impractical.
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Dahl, OJ., Nygaard, K. (2001). Class and Subclass Declarations. In: Broy, M., Denert, E. (eds) Pioneers and Their Contributions to Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48354-7_8
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