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: 103376,a92e43963a6b930f X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Warren Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: N best things about Ada? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <97691fd2-7411-4ccc-bc7b-290aca633cd5@z30g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4c3ca07c$0$6889$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9f8M0iN5t54V+4DF/iqO8g"; logging-data="22554"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ywiKz5lJZisxN14HGZPYZGkhPtAF9FGg=" 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:kOi3DefP0IFK6Bp0Ibv+9OENGis= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12388 Date: 2010-07-13T17:34:13+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus expounded in news:4c3ca07c$0$6889$9b4e6d93 @newsspool2.arcor-online.net: > On 13.07.10 18:18, Warren wrote: > >> There is nothing better than early bug detection! > > Indeed! Finding type errors in trace output after > run-time is another way of type checking. I don't find it so > productive. But it is both popular and respectable, > since, for example, Python applications on Google App Engine > work that way. And it does work. > > Most of the time. > > If you develop the skills to guess correctly ... > > So your argument doesn't carry enough weight: Google is big, > GAE is inexpensive at first, Python is reasonably popular. > This all shows there *is* something better than > early bug detection! I think you just bent the meter needle of my sarcasm detector, heh heh. Warren