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,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!feed3.news.rcn.net!not-for-mail Sender: jsa@rigel.goldenthreadtech.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <413e2fbd$0$30586$626a14ce@news.free.fr> <4140b906$0$29447$636a15ce@news.free.fr> From: jayessay Organization: Tangible Date: 13 Sep 2004 17:29:58 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: DXC=[LZRFLIMn_BD7I\oL:B:IG0R]m=BkYWIG:6bU3OT9S9JBn2l6bh<`nO^aM2i8keRmM^]NbeTf;bOE X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3699 Date: 2004-09-13T17:29:58-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: > jayessay wrote: > > : It is _static_ typing that is of questionable usefulness > : in any domain that doesn't have clear, well defined requirements > > I wish you had stated this so very clearly much earlier. :-) I did. Several times. Perhaps you missed those? > : (which is to say the vast majority of cases). > > Is it the vast majority of cases involving actual money where > there are no well defined requirements? Yes. /Jon -- 'j' - a n t h o n y at romeo/charley/november com