Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "MikeP" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:51:34 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="JFpB2gvi06BqMH/s1e1Gsw"; logging-data="29300"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185PjTlgT+yA4poHQBWwQDd" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 Cancel-Lock: sha1:67XH5hpv/gG7ydU8JntrteIQPXQ= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6239 lewbloch wrote: > John B. Matthews wrote: >> "MikeP" wrote: >>> Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> [...] >>>> 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. >> > > Oh, your what? What are you acting so shocked about? That Patricia recommended "an oil well drill to a dentist". I did not think the concept was obtuse. >>>> I'm very strongly of the opinion different languages should provide >>>> different features, making different trade-offs, and programmers >>>> should pick the language for a job based on its requirements and >>>> those features. >> >>> You have to admit, it's quite a chasm between Java/C# and Ada. >> > > Be specific. No one has to admit that. As the person making the > claim, the burden of proof is on you, "MikeP". Demonstrate your > point, please. Define "chasm", how to measure it, and what makes the > difference "quite" a chasm. You are on a witch-hunt so I'll bid you farewell (as in buh-bye, I don't do pee-pee measuring contests). > >> I find points of comparison very illuminating. Perhaps "chasm" is a >> matter of perspective. >> > > Perhaps "quite a chasm" is a matter of someone wanting to sound > impressive who has no facts or reasoning behind their argument, so > they make little unsupportable foolish comments full of "nudge, nudge, > wink, wink" instead. Don't look now but your EQ (lack of) is showing. > > C'mon, "MikeP", this is a programmers' group. Give us more than > tabloid gossip-column rhetoric, please. I really have no advice to those who are proverbial "bit heads" other than maybe enroll in a few Humanities classes? Now, if you want to grow up and have some post-adolescent discourse, fine. Else just puh-leeeze, go away!