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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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 09:17:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD1668D.A4A8BAE3@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? References: <27085883.0205010632.4c8225d8@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:17:17 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020356269 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 02 May 2002 12:17:49 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 12:17:49 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23421 Date: 2002-05-02T11:17:17-05:00 List-Id: > How about doing what I did: keep track of each bug found in their > currently-developing code, and then determine whether strong typing > would have either prevented it or turned a multi-day debug into a > multi-minute debug. This will prove to be a very sobering exercise, > especially in the case of bugs so nasty that they had programmers > considering new careers in door-to-door sales. I was once asked to do a report on the histories of files on a project. It was interesting to note how many one- or two-year-old Java files had very high version numbers compared to the 15-year-old Ada files. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau