From: James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: The greatest feature of the language is ....
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 03:10:29 GMT
Date: 2000-10-06T03:10:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39DD42F6.D850A126@worldnet.att.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn8tq9gj.jt.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol wrote:
>
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:48:05 -0500, Wes Groleau wrote:
> >If twenty people say "precondition assertions"
> >and five people say "separation of spec and body"
> >and NONE say subtypes with range constraints, that
> >tells you something, right?
>
> No it does not.
>
> Some features are also dependant on other features.
An even more important question is how the various features work
together.
Nobody can build a program using just one feature of any language.
One of the supposedly important features of Pascal was strong typing.
While strong typing offers some significant advantages, the Pascal
implementation of strong typing often gets in its own way.
Other languages offer weak typing as an strength. One result is that
developers must perform more extensive debugging and testing to try to
catch all the potential errors automatically caught by compilers for
strongly
typed languages.
Evaluating any language by a vote of favorite features makes about as
much
sense as buying an automobile based upon the size of the spark plug
recommended for the engine.
Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-05 0:00 The greatest feature of the language is Wes Groleau
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-05 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-10-06 1:08 ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-06 3:10 ` James Rogers [this message]
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-07 0:28 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-07 3:20 ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-07 5:36 ` jpwoodruff
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-06 6:56 ` Werner Pachler
2000-10-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16 0:00 ` David Emery
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2000-10-09 0:00 Soeren.Henssel-Rasmussen
2000-10-09 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
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