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From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Ada requires too much typing!
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:52:09 -0400
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In article <op.vdek5asaule2fv@garhos>,
 Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Le Fri, 28 May 2010 07:25:15 +0200, Luis Espinal <Luis_member@newsguy.com>  
> a écrit:
[...]
> > lack of operator overloading

I prefer Ada's approach in this, but Java is acceptable. Here's a 
simple example implemented in both Ada and Java for comparison:

<http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/misc/groots.html>
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/polyroots>

> and checked exceptions were What is this about “checked” exceptions ? 
> (a non-Java guru talking).

In Java, the presence of a suitable handler for checked exceptions is 
enforced at compile-time:

<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/exceptions.html#11.2>

The feature may be regarded as controversial:

<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/runtime.html>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>