Re: Is strong typing worth the cost?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

That is consistent with my own study that found we doubled productivity and
cut errors by a factor of four where Ada was used. But that was also
monitoring projects with very long lifespans and where errors were not
acceptable. If you don't care that it works right and conduct no testing of
your original design and implementation, you can save a bunch of time to
market. If you fix no errors, you have no maintenance cost. So maybe the
proponents of weak typing are seeing lower cost and attributing it to weak
typing when in reality the lower cost is because of what/how they are
building software.

MDC
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"Jim Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Visual Basic. Weak typing is assumed by its proponents to lower the
> cost
> of Initial Design and Development as well as Maintenance. The Rational
> study comparing C and Ada contradicts that assumption. It shows that
> the
> cost of using Ada is consistently one half the cost of using C for
> similar
> projects. The Rational study tracked development, maintenance, and
> warranty costs for software.