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: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 07:18:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CDBD673.FF452A3D@otelco.net> From: Larry Hazel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,x-ns11F8K63r3NhQ,x-ns2r2e09OnmPe2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational References: <3CD88FBD.4070706@telepath.com> <3CD91E31.1060004@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:17:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.230 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1021040216 66.0.32.230 (Fri, 10 May 2002 10:16:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:16:56 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23838 Date: 2002-05-10T09:17:23-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > Not everything needs to have its own type. This is (IMHO) a typical > "beginner" mistake - someone gets sold on the notion of "strong typing" (A > Good Thing)then goes to the extreme of having a unique type for everything > (A Bad Thing) - which just makes life very confusing and difficult. There is > such a thing as "Overkill". > I remember starting in the middle of an Ada 83 project. There was a separate type defined for everything. An old Elvis song kept going through my head. But instead of "girl happy", I was substituting "type happy". Larry