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: 2002-05-07 12:11:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3CD6C008.4E544675@san.rr.com> <3CD7F10D.C5017275@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1020798705 18503 129.241.83.78 (7 May 2002 19:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:11:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23665 Date: 2002-05-07T19:11:45+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 07 May 2002 15:21:28 GMT, Darren New wrote: [...] > I also think XP encourages a lot of reuse > of software. (Indeed, the "once and only once" mantra could be > considered a recommendation that software be maximally reused.) [...] and > I think XP is a programming philosophy where you spend a minimum of > forethought and planning up front (for various reasons having to do with > the nature of the requirements) and hence works well in a language where > you don't need to do a lot of planning up front to get an initial > result. The rest of XP is basically how to get a high-quality result in > spite of not planning very far ahead. Though only a myth, the story of the armed army of kangaroos springs to mind when you say this :-) (URL => http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~heimdahl/csci5802/misc/killer-kangas.htm) Preben