From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29fe9a340e0d180d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: JP Thornley Subject: Re: Depending on passing mechanism Date: 1997/10/15 Message-ID: <116328210wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280770684 References: X-Mail2News-Path: post.mail.demon.net!diphi.demon.co.uk Reply-To: jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-User: jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 876939375 3506 jpt diphi.demon.co.uk Organization: None Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker) writes: > > It should be comforting to you when your Boeing 777 crashes that its Ada code > met the standard.... > > This is another one of those cases that give standards bodies such a > bad name -- the behavior is well-defined as 'non-deterministic', but > non-functional. > Well now, the Ada-based language SPARK (Ada subset plus annotations) solved this problem a long time ago. Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | JP Thornley EMail jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk | | phil.thornley@acm.org | ------------------------------------------------------------------------