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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5af5c381381ac5a7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.erje.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.tornevall.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada requires too much typing! Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 07:48:51 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <4bfd19ba$0$2362$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: f7363c644eebf3acbfb761a2f3d68033 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fb33f41d4d2e6f41a24c8183d8f58e33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: <4bfd19ba$0$2362$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=fb33f41d4d2e6f41a24c8183d8f58e33 X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Non abbiamo padronanza della lingua italiana - se mandate una email scrivete solo in Inglese, grazie X-Posting-User: 0243687135df8c4b260dd4a9a93c79bd Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11065 Date: 2010-05-26T07:48:51-07:00 List-Id: Peter C. Chapin wrote: > > 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? The important point is that in the real world, code is written once, but read many times. I'm sure this is just as true with Scala as it is with every other language. So saving typing at the cost of making it harder to read is a false economy. Any project where money is involved should take that into consideration. As Preben Randhol put it, "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language." -- Jeff Carter "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!" Dr. Strangelove 33