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: 2002-05-03 08:38:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD2AEE4.850F28C4@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: <4519e058.0204290722.2189008@posting.google.com> <3CCE8523.6F2E721C@earthlink.net> <3CCEB246.9090009@worldnet.att.net> <3CCFD76A.A60BB9A8@flash.net> <3CD0A3B8.7B7C8622@san.rr.com> <3CD15FAE.6DEE0AD@despammed.com> <3CD16B60.93078396@san.rr.com> <3CD1B496.DBE8ADC4@san.rr.com> <3CD1BACC.8938FEAB@despammed.com> <3CD1D17B.F60DCB89@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:38:12 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020440295 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 03 May 2002 10:38:15 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:38:15 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23502 Date: 2002-05-03T10:38:12-05:00 List-Id: > Err, no. Apparently, you don't understand enough about XP to even have > an idea of why Ada is poorly suited to it. Well, I've been too busy to look into it. But I finally printed out an intro to read in the bathroom. :-) First thing that caught my eye as I was clicking 'print': Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something. Anyone who feeds you slogans instead of information is selling something. The above slogan is selling XP. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau