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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Julia for Next-Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 07:44:53 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <9c0965fe-80de-453e-abc8-bf8d432df589@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 05:44:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fa083aa9361a9432b1c0785b3dd7e160"; logging-data="30554"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+C930DkAZWctgIUJpU/Xj5" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kMQq+5xNnNQYkoQ629f5f5y3IFc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58330 Date: 2020-04-09T07:44:53+02:00 List-Id: Le 08/04/2020 à 23:51, Nasser M. Abbasi a écrit : > There is a trend going on in software engineering for the last 30 years. > > Languages that are weak on typing (no typing at all, Duck typing, > loose typing, dynamic typing, etc...) are getting very popular > and languages that have strong static type checking which allows > more error to be detected at compile time, are being ignored > and are less popular with the masses. > > Go figures > I'd even say that the trend is for ease of writing rather than ease of reading/maintaining. Well, software engineering is not the only domain where advertising for long term benefit against immediate gain is difficult and unpopular... -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr