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: 103376,61e9062c1f23b9d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps90.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: blaak@METROID Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Reconsidering assignment References: <1181165630.012508.55290@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <1181200546.608422.95280@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> From: Ray Blaak Message-ID: Organization: The Transcend User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:34:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.94.243 X-Trace: edtnps90 1181234086 154.20.94.243 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:34:46 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:34:46 MDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16091 Date: 2007-06-07T16:34:46+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak writes: > > Ugh. This is tedious. Seems easier to me to just let the contraint error > > happen. > > The whole Ada is tedious. Let's move to Python, where even the chore > of writing begin/end is eliminated. ;-) I want the ability to specify "contracts" to guide how things should behave, but there is no reason to make that any more difficult than it needs to be. It is a whole black art how to figure out the trade off between ease of use, clarity, expresive power and safety. At any rate, I do have an affection for dynamic languages, but it has to be Lisp instead of Python :-). -- Cheers, The Rhythm is around me, The Rhythm has control. Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me, rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net The Rhythm has my soul.