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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,640b65cbfbab7216 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Untyped Ada? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <47F26C46.3010607@obry.net> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:31:07 +0200 Message-ID: <7l73pn8orjg1$.13qid86ge7hxe.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Apr 2008 09:31:07 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: ef599736.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=MX@OO\hjFLoeoCI^f\Y]EaA9EHlD;3Ycb4Fo<]lROoRaFl8W>\BH3Yba7Sd[7KiEEdDNcfSJ;bb[eFCTGGVUmh?dLK[5LiR>kgb1=[aLS_=Xna X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20752 Date: 2008-04-02T09:31:07+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:00:15 -0800, Phaedrus wrote: > Certainly it is an important part of Ada, but I wasn't suggesting that it be > deleted entirely. However, it might be handy to have a less-strongly typed > version of Ada, for instance to create prototypes faster and easier. Then, > aspects of the prototype could be migrated into a "fully typed" arena once > the "quick and dirty" prototype was completed. Type error is a bug. To have it undetected makes nothing quicker or easier. As others have suggested, you are likely confusing weak typing with dynamic [yet strong] typing. Maybe you have type inference in mind, maybe, non-manifestedly typed systems, maybe, agile/extreme programming... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de