From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B17DBC8B for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:52:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from mxsrv2.tranzpeer.net (mxsrv2.tranzpeer.net [202.180.66.215]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1D1qItI003584 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:52:23 +0100 Received: from [202.180.79.175] (helo=p175.cpiwn1-n4.callplus.net.nz) by mxsrv2.tranzpeer.net with ASMTP (Exim 4.34) id 1D08vn-0000N4-JG for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:52:17 +1300 From: Tony Edgin Reply-To: edgin@slingshot.co.nz Organization: CARP To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:51:02 +1300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <877e9a17050206221653d14456@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a17050212145737cc30d6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502131451.02231.edgin@slingshot.co.nz> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 420EB2D3.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 reuse:01 checking:01 tradeoff:03 tradeoff:03 static:03 problem:05 written:06 obvious:06 michael:07 i'm:08 feb:09 feb:09 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:12, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Michael Walter wrote: > > What I'm saying is that choosing a language is a tradeoff, and the > > kind of tradeoff C++ gives you can be a very good one (if not the > > best) for particular problem domains. > > Which would be for example? An obvious example is code reuse. For certain application domains, like for instance, military simulation, many libraries of C++ code have been written. Thus, for military simulation, C++ would be a good choice for reducing time to market. Tony