Re: Humor fromkipedia

[Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>]

Martin Krischik wrote:

> If you not a troll after all and really want to know the difference:
> 
>   Ada:
>     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Subtypes
>     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types
>   Java:
>     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/Types
> 
> Wow, I never expected such drastic difference. Ada 2 chapters with a total
> of 19 pages - Java a mere 9 lines.

<serious>
These numbers say nothing. You can buy arbitrarily verbose Java book 
with the "Types" chapter having arbitrary number of pages, including 
introduction, summary, excercises, ... Just comparing wiki chapters is 
not meaningful at all.
</serious>

</not-serious>
Actually, I'd say that when it comes to the type system, Java just runs 
circles around Ada - just see its int, Integer and IntHolder, which are 
not one, but *three* types for the same data concept! ;-)

And there are more Java "types" (programmers) anyway.
</not-serious>


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