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From: "kevin  cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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On Apr 11, 6:45 pm, Brian May <b...@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >>>>> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Rosen <r...@adalog.fr> writes:
>
>     Jean-Pierre> My experience is that recompiling (generally a single
>     Jean-Pierre> body where you added the trace) is much faster than
>     Jean-Pierre> starting the debugger, setting breakpoints, skipping
>     Jean-Pierre> lots of unnecessary breaks, and so on.
>
> Assuming you notice that a bug exists. This is a big problem I have
> had especially with most interpreted languages. The only way you can
> be sure the code is bug free is too regularly test every possible
> path, including different error conditions.

This is also true of compiled languages.  The compiler can not detect
all errors, so you still have to test every possible path, including
different error conditions.

> Otherwise you find that
> after a minor but unexpected error condition your previously working
> code calls display__error() instead of display_error() and it becomes
> a fatal function-not-found error (even if you swear: I didn't change
> that line!).

Or you could discover that after an unexpected condition the resulting
exception is not caught, and the program exits instead of
recovering.

> --
> Brian May <b...@snoopy.apana.org.au>