From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e7db243dfa070d7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!195.71.90.67.MISMATCH!news.unit0.net!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Do people who use Ada also use ocaml or F#? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:53:51 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Oct 2010 09:53:55 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 02a42300.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=oRT5Kg[6LHn;2LCVn7enW;^6ZC`d\`mfM[68DCc4jCZ=YAndcl X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:15896 Date: 2010-10-29T09:53:55+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:27:40 -0700 (PDT), Chad R. Meiners wrote: > I have chosen > languages that support generics because quite frankly after learning > Ada, any statically typed language that does not support generics is > not a suitable language for developing anything of substance. I don't see any connection between static typing and parametric polymorphism (AKA generics), except that both are static. In any case I would like to see Ada without generics, which cause a messy design, are fundamentally non-testable and unmaintainable. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de