From: "Richard Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP and memory management
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:39:59 GMT
Date: 2004-08-19T00:39:59+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zFSUc.6442$3O3.4773@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
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"Kelly Hall" <khall@acm.org> wrote in message
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> Jeff Brooks wrote:
>
> > The problem is static type checking is a very weak form of testing.
>
> That's because most programming languages have very weak type systems.
> I strongly advocate beefier type systems.
>
> As long as you're willing to write every test case you care about - no
> wonder you want to spend less time in the editor :) As a formal methods
> guy, I'd much rather write one proof and ignore a whole class of test
> cases. Ideally, my compiler would do most of the proofs for me. But
> we're not there yet - more's the pity.
>
May I suggest you take a serious look at the Praxis Software SPARK
development model. As "a formal methods guy," you will probably
appreciate the contribution of SPARK.
Richard Riehle
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2004-08-19 0:37 ` Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP and memory management Richard Riehle
2004-08-19 4:54 ` Thomas G. Marshall
2004-08-19 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-08-19 16:24 ` Thomas G. Marshall
2004-08-19 12:52 ` Jim Rogers
2004-08-19 16:31 ` Thomas G. Marshall
2004-08-20 1:27 ` Stephen Leake
2004-08-20 7:00 ` Richard Riehle
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2004-08-19 0:39 ` Richard Riehle [this message]
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