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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:26:15 -0700
From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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On 7/15/2011 9:29 PM, MikeP wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>> On 7/14/2011 10:14 PM, MikeP wrote:
>>> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>>> On 7/6/2011 8:35 AM, rop rop wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> If I want to have arithmetic-overflow checking in all parts of an
>>>>> application,
>>>>> what is the most practical, simple, efficient way to achieve this?
>>>>
>>>> Write the application in Ada.
>>>>
>>>> Patricia
>>>
>>> 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.

Patricia