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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-02 15:08:39 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 2 Dec 1994 16:36:02 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3bo402$23a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3bd06n$kbt@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bldlu$84r@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8203 comp.lang.c:33088 comp.programming:5574 comp.lang.c++:39316 comp.object:9342 Date: 1994-12-02T16:36:02-05:00 List-Id: In article <3bldlu$84r@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar wrote: >Really the only step you could go further is to specifically add units >support to the language, but for most people that is feature overkill. Yeah, we lost the battle on that one. >IN practice, I find the strong type protection of different integer types >to be of minimal value, strong typing is most important at a higher level >than that, but that's a matter of personal taste. In general I agree, and find that subtypes give the needed range checks without getting the programmer into type-compatibility stew, but there are these persistent "urban myths" about Fortran codes whose mangled dimension analysis sent space probes off the wrong way, etc. Mike Feldman