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From: NKSW39B@prodigy.com (Matthew Givens)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/16
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Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com> wrote:
>
>> assumes that the programmer WANTS the strict typing.  I rarely do, 
>> and I rarely run into problems with it.
>If you are dealing only with counting apples, then certainly all your
>counts should be of the same type, which is no more difficult in Ada
>than in C.  Only if you are counting both apples and oranges, and do 
not
>wish to accidentally compare apples and oranges, do you need multiple,
>distinct, types.  That's much less conveniently done in C than Ada.  
Ada
>gives you convenient tools for both situations, C only for the simple
>situation.

If I'm counting apples and oranges (both countable by integers), why 
should I have different data types?  The variable names used to 
accumulate the results are quite adequate to distinguish the difference 
between the two.

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