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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-02 11:24:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!easynet-tele!easynet-melon!easynet.net!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:24:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0204290722.2189008@posting.google.com> <3CCE8523.6F2E721C@earthlink.net> <3CCEB246.9090009@worldnet.att.net> <3CCFFB7F.B8080F7A@despammed.com> <3CD1608B.A6336379@despammed.com> <3CD16D9E.912B1659@lmtas.lmco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1020363888 11753 129.241.83.78 (2 May 2002 18:24:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:24:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23437 Date: 2002-05-02T18:24:48+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:47:26 -0500, Gary Scott wrote: > > That would have been FORTRAN 77. Hardly the same results as a > comparison with Fortran 95, which nearly every current compiler is (not > that if you restricted yourself to the FORTRAN 77 subset of Fortran 95, > you may get the same results, but that would not be a wise thing to do). FORTRAN 77 is almost beyond weak typed language so I have used IMPLICIT LOGICAL (A-Z) in every subroutine/function so that any variable not defined by me becomes a boolean variable and thus in almost all cases will give an error at compilation. Preben