Re: C++ vs. Ada: Which language is more strongly typed?

Re: C++ vs. Ada: Which language is more strongly typed?

[Lucretia]

On Friday, 1 June 2018 19:42:32 UTC+1, Sky89  wrote:

> http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2014/04/17/c-vs-ada-which-language-is-more-strongly-typed/

You've actually posted something useful.

Re: C++ vs. Ada: Which language is more strongly typed?

[Paul Rubin]

Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>> http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2014/04/17/c-vs-ada-which-language-is-more-strongly-typed/
>
> You've actually posted something useful.

Bah, that article was useless imho.  It says C++ is less strongly typed
than Ada in some regards but that you can do some type parametrization
using templates, in ways unsupported or not usually done in Ada.  I had
thought Ada generics supported that to some extent, but maybe I'm wrong.
The article doesn't discuss the issue.

I think everyone knows C++ is a hot mess either way, so comparisons on
these narrow issues aren't very useful.

Re: C++ vs. Ada: Which language is more strongly typed?

[Luke A. Guest]

Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Lucretia <> writes:
>>> http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2014/04/17/c-vs-ada-which-language-is-more-strongly-typed/
>> 
>> You've actually posted something useful.
> 
> Bah, that article was useless imho.  It says C++ is less strongly typed

I agree the article is total bollocks, but I was indicating that I was
amazed he posted something better than his usual shite.

Re: C++ vs. Ada: Which language is more strongly typed?

[Paul Rubin]

Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
> I agree the article is total bollocks, but I was indicating that I was
> amazed he posted something better than his usual shite.

Fair enough.  But I read the article because your post made me think it
might be good, and that's 5 minutes of my life gone forever.  Meh.