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,da35ce5bfee7a73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Humor fromkipedia Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:37:10 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <5091708.BiALrfj15j@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1137796370.523124.257210@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <54191081.CEaqz48z4D@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-74-134-212.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1138041931 20525 84.74.134.212 (23 Jan 2006 18:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:45:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2591 Date: 2006-01-23T19:37:10+01:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Martin Krischik wrote: > >> If you not a troll after all and really want to know the difference: >> >> Ada: >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Subtypes >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types >> Java: >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/Types >> >> Wow, I never expected such drastic difference. Ada 2 chapters with a >> total of 19 pages - Java a mere 9 lines. > > These numbers say nothing. You can buy arbitrarily verbose Java book > with the "Types" chapter having arbitrary number of pages, including > introduction, summary, excercises, ... Just comparing wiki chapters is > not meaningful at all. > These numbers are very telling. You just have to see them on a human level: The authors of the Java Wikibook thought that a table of 9 lines is all you ever need to know about Java's type system - at least when it comes to primitive types. On the other hand the authors of the Java wikibook thought that the reader needs to know a lot more... > > Actually, I'd say that when it comes to the type system, Java just runs > circles around Ada - just see its int, Integer and IntHolder, which are > not one, but *three* types for the same data concept! ;-) > > And there are more Java "types" (programmers) anyway. > :-) Martin. -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com