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_50,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.arch,net.lang.ada Subject: Re: What I miss... (really C, Ada, religion) Message-ID: <1700@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 16:56:10 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1700 Posted: Mon Oct 7 16:56:10 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Oct-85 06:49:26 EDT References: <796@kuling.UUCP> <2580002@csd2.UUCP> <191@graffiti.UUCP> <568@unisoft.UUCP> <1777@orca.UUCP> <879@lll-crg.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Xref: linus net.arch:1676 net.lang.ada:377 List-Id: > REAL programmers don't need subscript checking, they write lint free code > automatically. Please leave your ADA hype on net.ada where no one is > bothering to read it! Aside from the fact that the above might not be serious, it, and a couple other recent postings, seem to reflect a common misunderstanding. Just because ADA uses "subscript checking", strong typing, etc., doesn't mean these things are somehow peculiar to ADA; it's just that ADA attempts to employ a lot of things that it has recently come to be believed are good things to have. This discussion is about things related to type checking, detection of addresses that do not name valid objects, detection of uninitialized values, etc., and only incidentally is related to ADA because ADA happens to employ these principles to some extent. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: Ofc: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer Home: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jerpc!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642