Talk:A+ (programming language)

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Somehow that seemed more like a sales pitch for A+ than a real article about it. I'd like to know exactly why its so efficant and portable and wonderful.

Mostly fixed. This could really use a screenshot, though. I'll put one in later. Quamaretto 14:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typing Discipline: Strong?

There is a lot of implicit casting going on, does that still qualify as strong typing? 83.67.217.254 14:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

It's dynamic typing, as dynamic as it gets. Monadic Mike 20:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Successor language?

What is a successor language? I would imagine that Algol 68 is a successor to Algol 64. Maybe Fortran 90 a successor to Fortran IV and Fortran II. Or C++ a successor to C. Lacking a suitable definition, I intuitively feel that in order to be a true successor, a language should offer something of a migration path and be similar to the old language in many important details. Not so for A+ to K, it may share authors, and both may be similar to APL.

I took the statement that K is a successor to A+ out as it sounded too much like a sales pitch.

If there is a successor to A+, it might be Java, provided that (ugh) Morgan starts rewriting their A+ applications in Java.

Monadic Mike 20:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)