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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,43b764a97e83c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!sumatra.thomas-huehn.de!texta.sil.at!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Praxis High Integrity Systems got /. Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:49:16 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1429182.G8kr7lipUi@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1550583.AA7TYtsqqn@linux1.krischik.com> <20060107121210453-0600@news.airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-74-134-212.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1136665802 4753 84.74.134.212 (7 Jan 2006 20:30:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:30:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2464 Date: 2006-01-07T20:49:16+01:00 List-Id: Robert Love wrote: > In <1550583.AA7TYtsqqn@linux1.krischik.com> Martin Krischik wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have no time to read it right now but I expect a nice flame war: >> >> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/06/006225 >> > > A quick read shows Ada doesn't get much play in this discussion. Praxis > and its methods are mentioned but it quickly unravels into a discussion > of funding, functional languages, etc. Praxis' point of view is > overcome by other people's experiences where formal methods aren't used. Indeed. Just what I expected (had some time to read it now). Only the group of programmers claiming that formal procedures are not needed and secure programs can be done C by the right kind of programmer anyway where missing. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com