From: Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Preventing type extensions
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:20:24 +0200
Date: 2010-09-22T23:20:24+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c9a7318$0$6876$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkv9a5kl.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On 9/22/10 10:25 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Dmitry A. Kazakov:
>> At least to me, it is impossible to achieve consistency and clearness of
>> design any close to what can be done in Ada. Looking at C++ class libraries
>> designed by other people assures me that I am not alone.
>
> I don't doubt that this has been your experience, but this in no way
> contradicts that the C++ type system is way more expressive than
> Ada's.
The bi-weekly CVEs demonstrate that C++'s fundamental type system,
by choice still basically C's, is such that all the expressiveness
built on top of it will not effectively compensate. So let's not
go nuts and recognize instead that a fantastically powerful type system
is just as important as making programmers understand "int".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-12 10:18 Preventing type extensions Florian Weimer
2010-09-12 11:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-12 12:53 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-12 21:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-09-13 5:32 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-13 7:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 9:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-13 9:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 10:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-13 12:55 ` Cyrille
2010-09-13 13:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 21:13 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-21 13:57 ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 14:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 14:44 ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 16:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-21 18:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-23 20:00 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-23 20:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-24 9:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-24 10:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-24 13:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-24 16:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-24 17:47 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-24 19:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 14:32 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-21 15:02 ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 15:26 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-21 16:18 ` Cyrille
2010-09-22 8:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-22 17:28 ` Cyrille
2010-09-22 19:30 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-22 19:51 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 20:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 20:25 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 20:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 21:25 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-22 21:20 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2010-09-22 20:16 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-22 20:34 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 22:45 ` Britt Snodgrass
2010-09-23 8:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-23 16:51 ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-23 18:37 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-23 18:55 ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-23 20:28 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-24 9:20 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-24 14:49 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-24 15:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-24 16:21 ` Robert A Duff
2010-09-25 7:10 ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-25 12:03 ` Brian Drummond
2010-09-24 8:16 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-24 8:39 ` Cyrille
2010-09-24 9:27 ` Cyrille
2010-09-29 16:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-30 10:08 ` Cyrille
2010-10-05 17:02 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-08 7:50 ` Cyrille
2010-10-08 13:58 ` Cyrille
2010-10-08 20:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-11 7:57 ` Cyrille
2010-10-11 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-12 5:23 ` Shark8
2010-10-13 9:06 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-13 17:37 ` Cyrille
2010-10-13 18:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 14:50 ` (see below)
2010-09-21 17:37 ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 19:07 ` (see below)
2010-09-13 13:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 20:21 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-13 21:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 21:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-14 12:16 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-14 16:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 18:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-14 18:32 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-15 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 17:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-13 15:12 ` Securing type extensions (was: Preventing type extensions) Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-13 15:29 ` Securing type extensions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 17:23 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-13 20:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-13 20:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 10:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-14 12:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 21:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-15 8:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-15 20:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-16 7:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-16 11:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-16 12:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-16 20:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-16 21:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-17 8:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-17 9:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-05 5:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-09-13 18:32 ` Preventing " Florian Weimer
2010-09-13 20:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 19:41 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 20:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 21:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-17 0:16 ` Shark8
2010-09-17 7:04 ` AdaMagica
2010-09-17 21:05 ` Shark8
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