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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost?
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:44:37 -0400
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I have similar experience - I too hack quick & dirty things in Ada. Part of
why that works is a high level of familiarity with the language - its always
quicker if you don't have to read the book. Part of it is that I have a
large toolkit of utilities accumulated over time that I am intimately
familiar with and can thus hack together a fairly large program quickly from
parts.

But I can still see that there are jobs more easily pulled together with a
shell script or something like DCL, etc.

MDC
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"Marc A. Criley" <mcqada95@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>
> I often see this assertion, that when it comes to quick-and-dirty, one
> shot programs, there are arguably better choices than Ada.
>
> But I write one shot programs all the time, and while I'm less rigourous
> in the typing of the variables that are used (predominantly Integer,
> Natural, Float, and Unbounded_String), I can hardly envision things
> going any faster using C, Perl, etc.
>
> Maybe it's just due to the nature of the q&d programs I typically need
> to write.
>
> Marc A. Criley