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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,93a8020cc980d113 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "kevin cline" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada? Date: 12 Apr 2007 09:46:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1176396382.586729.195490@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> References: <1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <461B52A6.20102@obry.net> <461BA892.3090002@obry.net> <82dgve.spf.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1176226291.589741.257600@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <4eaive.6p9.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.8.57.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1176396386 21597 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2007 16:46:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:46:26 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ics_server.swacorp.com (ICS 2.3.0.0.16) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.8.57.2; posting-account=Thx6EwwAAAAirqf96i7UdETSL0vfyj5f Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14948 Date: 2007-04-12T09:46:22-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 11, 6:45 pm, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Rosen 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.... Are you claiming that use of Ada makes it safe to release code that has never been tested?