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From: worp@euronet.nl (Bart_van_der_Worp)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 21:51:20
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In article <KANZE.94Dec5174315@slsvhdt.us-es.sel.de> kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) writes:
>From: kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
>Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
>Date: 05 Dec 1994 16:43:14 GMT

>In article <3blinp$8dm@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert
>Dewar) writes:

>|> I am happy to see technical points in comparison of languages, but this
>|> argument is non-technical and in the long run less relevant than people
>|> imagine. Note that the only technical point that Gareth made was that
>|> somehow all the strong typing etc. in Ada would make people's life
>|> harder, which is of course nonsense, and presumably is nonsense borne
>|> of ignorance.

>I can't resist pointing it out.  Using strict type-checking *does*
>make writing programs harder.  You actually have to think about what
>you are doing, and maybe even do a bit of design before writing,
>rather than just banging in a bunch of code, and dropping into the
>debugger at the first sign of a core dump.

Does not using strong typing make programming easier?
Of course not. Even using typedefs in C, without proper compiler checking,
allready makes programming easier in the long term. Indeed because
it is required to think, and because programs are more readable.

(Strong) typing gives most programming languages user friendly interfaces.
Our clients want them at their level, so why not use them for our own best
sake at our programming level?

Bart.