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Date: 2004-09-06T17:01:59-04:00

kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) writes:

> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<vpblkhspuA9F@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> > In article <iWG_c.8033$w%6.3982@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Richard  Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> writes:
> > 
> > > No one argues that testing is unimportant.
> >  
> > > No language can protect us, at compile time, from every possible
> > > error.
> > 
> > But assuming perfect testing, finding the errors during compilation
> > rather than in testing saves me time, and time is money.
> 
> I thought so too, until I tried incremental test-first development. 
> Retesting a unit after adding a few lines of code means that type
> mismatches are caught immediately with or without strong typing.  But
> it goes faster if you don't have to compile and link every iteration.

Hmm. I practice "test first" and incremental code/test. But I don't
write tests that duplicate what the compiler is already testing; that
would certainly be a waste of my time!

It takes me much longer to write and test code in C than in Ada. I
suppose Haskell or something might be even better, but I'm waiting for
an ISO standard language that I can buy support for.

-- 
-- Stephe