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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,5af5c381381ac5a7 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Warren Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada requires too much typing! Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <4bfd19ba$0$2362$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Injection-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9f8M0iN5t54V+4DF/iqO8g"; logging-data="25048"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18UyoEAxRjLYKTnePKI5OYiB5VqxC8Lvkk=" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Face: &6@]C2>ZS=NM|HE-^zWuryN#Z/2_.s9E|G&~DRi|sav9{E}XQJb*\_>=a5"q]\%A;5}LKP][1mA{gZ,Q!j Cancel-Lock: sha1:0FGyjadxiORvYSBZifn/9IYjn9o= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12089 Date: 2010-05-27T17:10:24+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey R. Carter expounded in news:htjce2$31g$1@tornado.tornevall.net: > Peter C. Chapin wrote: >> However, the argument that I see some people putting forth on the >> Scala group is that conciseness is good because it saves typing. I >> really can't understand that. How hard is it to type? > > The important point is that in the real world, code is written once, > but read many times. I'm sure this is just as true with Scala as it is > with every other language. Not so (snickers) - Perl is read once, rewritten many times. Even the perl code's author can't remember how it worked, 3 months later ;-) Warren