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-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <47887709.9030107@obry.net> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:15:05 +0100 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> <13oe680qard6u2d@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jan 2008 09:15:07 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.205.32.111 X-Trace: 1200125707 news.orange.fr 862 86.205.32.111:1859 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19339 Date: 2008-01-12T09:15:07+01:00 List-Id: Jeffrey R. Carter a �crit : > Gary Scott wrote: >> >> On the contrary, this [user-defined numeric types] more often than not >> obfuscates, particularly for future maintainance purposes. > > On the contrary, properly used they catch numerous development errors at > compilation (that with the "everything's Integer" approach become > run-time errors, often remaining in the delivered system), reducing the > need for future maintenance. That's the point of using a strongly typed > language over something like C. Agreed 100%, I don't even see a single argument to state the opposite. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595