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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Alan Lovejoy Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/17 Message-ID: <32E05FAF.47BA@concentric.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 210578750 references: <32DF458F.4D5C@concentric.net> <32DF94DC.6FF8@watson.ibm.com> <32DFD972.37E4@concentric.net> <5bphq4$5js@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Modulation mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; U) Date: 1997-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Fergus Henderson wrote: > > Alan Lovejoy writes: > > >Sure. Everyone agrees that catching errors at compile time is less costly. > > > >However, dynamic typing results in signficantly faster development time. > > That is highly debatable. My experience is that static typing results > in faster development time. Really? So then, why have so many investment banks adopted Smalltalk as the language of choice for doing securities trading applications? The reason typically given is that development speed in Smalltalk is so much faster--which boils down to big bucks on the trading floor. Could the financial people be wrong? Ok, some of them use OpenStep/Objective-C instead--but Objective-C is dynamically typed (if the value is an object), so that doesn't change anything. Perhaps you should go to J P Morgan and try to convince them that the bank would be better off using C++? Ha! I can just see that conversation... :-) (Actually, they do use C, C++ and Galaxy in some projects where it makes sense). -- Alan L. Lovejoy |==============================================| Smalltalk Consultant | Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs! | alovejoy@concentric.net |==============================================|