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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 15:37:35 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!feeder.via.net!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3CD06995.17147CCA@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <82347202.0205010735.1d1a66c3@posting.google.com> <3CD04E0C.AAC18E1@san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 22:17:57 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23376 Date: 2002-05-01T22:17:57+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > > dmjones wrote: > > > > A small group of people, starting from scratch, say under 100K SLOC, > > working for 6 months. I think weak typing could win. > > This definitely sounds like a situation in which Extreme Programming > could pay off. Check it out via google. "Anything over 50,000 lines of code, you should be using Ada." -- Dennis Ritchie -- Jeffrey Carter