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,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> <13oe680qard6u2d@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1200097296 12.201.97.213 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:21:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:21:36 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:21:36 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19333 Date: 2008-01-12T00:21:36+00:00 List-Id: Gary Scott wrote: > > On the contrary, this [user-defined numeric types] more often than not obfuscates, particularly for > future maintainance purposes. On the contrary, properly used they catch numerous development errors at compilation (that with the "everything's Integer" approach become run-time errors, often remaining in the delivered system), reducing the need for future maintenance. That's the point of using a strongly typed language over something like C. -- Jeff Carter "Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple." Charles Babbage 92