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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Cesar Rabak wrote:

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|"[..]                                                                          |
|                                                                               |
|[..]  All this discussion about avoiding programmer errors can be attained     |
|instead of creating four nicknames for Float to allow:                         |
|                                                                               |
|procedure makePointXY(X : Float; Y : Float) is                                 |
|   begin                                                                       |
|      null; --Whatever.                                                        |
|   end;                                                                        |
|                                                                               |
|procedure makePoint_R_Theta(R : Float; Theta : Float) is                       |
|   begin                                                                       |
|      null; --Whatever.                                                        |
|   end;                                                                        |
|                                                                               |
|Do you agree the programmer will find the mistake easily as well?              |
|                                                                               |
|[..]"                                                                          |
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Yes.