Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.erje.net!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!postnews.google.com!t8g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3282bfa8-227b-4590-a830-67d9df0a4d1c@t8g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.89.33.208 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1310839215 21153 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2011 18:00:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t8g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.89.33.208; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.56 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6232 "MikeP" wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> MikeP wrote: >>> Patricia Shanahan wrote: >>>> MikeP wrote: >>>>> Patricia Shanahan wrote: >>>>>> Write the application in Ada. > >>>>> But C# is very Java-like and has "checked" and also the >>>>> compiler-level equivalent, so C# would be the better alternative. >>>>> (And yes, I do know you were just kidding about Ada). > >>>> No, I was not really joking, though I did not attempt to find all >>>> the languages that would meet the stated requirement. > >>> Don't look now, but if you weren't joking, then you recommended Ada >>> to a Java programmer! Oh my. > >> Huh? Java, like any healthy programming language, is a tool, not a >> religion. > > Just like a dentist's drill and an oil well [sic] drill are tools? > Yes, exactly. Both of those are tools, and neither of those are religions. -- Lew