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: 2002-05-02 05:00:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!207.217.77.43.MISMATCH!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!78d6f1f0!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD12A77.5C48FD2F@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? References: <4519e058.0204290722.2189008@posting.google.com> <3CCE8523.6F2E721C@earthlink.net> <3CCED46D.43145174@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 12:00:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.123.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1020340830 158.252.123.50 (Thu, 02 May 2002 05:00:30 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 05:00:30 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23401 Date: 2002-05-02T12:00:30+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > So maybe the question starts coming down to "How correct do you want the > software to be?" If its a quick and dirty, one shot program, Ada is likely > to lose. If it Absolutely, Positively Has To Be There Overnight, then weakly > typed languages will lose. Somewhere in the middle, there is an arguable > point where it crosses over. I often see this assertion, that when it comes to quick-and-dirty, one shot programs, there are arguably better choices than Ada. But I write one shot programs all the time, and while I'm less rigourous in the typing of the variables that are used (predominantly Integer, Natural, Float, and Unbounded_String), I can hardly envision things going any faster using C, Perl, etc. Maybe it's just due to the nature of the q&d programs I typically need to write. Marc A. Criley