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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada requires too much typing!
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On Wed, 26 May 2010, Peter C. Chapin sent:

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|[..] Not surprisingly the Scala community,                                   |
|as evidenced by the posts on a Scala newsgroup, regard conciseness as an     |
|important feature for a programming language. I agree that conciseness can in|
|some cases improve readability. However, I also believe that it can obscure a|
|lot of important detail and make it hard to understand the execution cost of |
|the code. [..]"                                                              |
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Passing a parameter to an Ada subprogram can look like choosing an
element of an Ada array, with a very different execution cost.

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|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?                                     |
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Not very.