From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,640b65cbfbab7216 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Untyped Ada? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:44:02 +0200 Message-ID: <22tyq65ds2cv.1ilws5r2gmpi2.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Apr 2008 09:44:00 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: b1df043a.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=iN5YMK@LW4:D]ncZ]`hZ;14IUK2B7JUdSED6J9[6LHn;2LCV>7enW;^6ZC`4IXm65S@:3>?ngci\eB7B@< X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20704 Date: 2008-04-01T09:44:00+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:44:43 -0800, Phaedrus wrote: > It's a slow Monday, so it's time to ask non-pertinent, and possibly > impertinent, question: > > If a non-typed or weakly typed version of Ada were available, would you use > it? > > A) Never! My code is perfect, and I never, ever have to convert types! > B) Maybe for prototypes. > C) Late at night when I thought nobody could see me. With the curtains > drawn. And under an assumed name. > D) Proudly, and often, and in public! Who cares what the neighbors think? Any dynamically typed system is a statically typed system where all objects are instances of the same type which has all possible methods. So there is no choice anyway. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de