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From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
Date: 05 Dec 1994 23:48:53 GMT
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In article <3bvbaa$1lla@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) writes:
|In article <3bldlu$84r@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
|writes: 
|
||> IN practice, I find the strong type protection of different integer types
||> to be of minimal value, strong typing is most important at a higher level
||> than that, but that's a matter of personal taste.
|
|For computationally intensive uses of numeric types (the subject of
|Robert's posting) I certainly agree.
|
|However, I have found a compelling use of strong typing to be
|the declaration of distinct array-index types: [...]

Fortunately, you can define distinct array index types in C++ as well
as in Ada.

				Thomas.