Re: Web Development Using Ada?

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:11:05 AM UTC-6, Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
> Le Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:49:17 +0200, Shark8 
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> 
> > 5. Generics -- I had to write the same function again and again  
> > (slightly different because of the 'types' coming in) when using PHP;  
> > that system would have been a lot nicer and more stable if PHP had  
> > generics.
> 
> I won't go so far: it would have been a lot nicer if it had types and  
> signatures and real modules and static consistency check for all of this.  
> It has none of these basic things (there is not even a real kind of  
> phplint to help).

6, 7, and 8 address all of those, and they are honestly needed for a sane generic-system. (Otherwise all you're doing is text-expansion macros and those can be very dangerous, esp. if you pass in an evaluated expression as a parameter.)