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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 21:36 +0000, James Giles wrote:

>   Determining whether a variable is defined or not is a
> complex problem.  It's made worse by the fact that the user can
> make the error message go away (though not usually the problem)
> by initializing the variable in the declaration.

SPARK is a subset of Ada that addresses these and other issues.
The SPARK tools provide path analysis, information flow analysis,
etc., leading to a proof of properties of the analysed program.
This comes at a price, though, as SPARK cannot handle full Ada
(being a subset language).



-- Georg