From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: constraint-errors
Date: 1996/10/07
Date: 1996-10-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Oct7.171453.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53bidr$en6@linus.mitre.org
In article <53bidr$en6@linus.mitre.org>, mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes:
> Constraint errors are the largest difference in the FEEL of programming
> Ada versus other languages, and all programmers experience them, in part
In my experience, Ada constraint error have much the same feel as
similar errors encountered after compiling with a good Pascal compiler.
> Ada versus other languages, and all programmers experience them, in part
> because of compiler/runtime/system problems, and in part because the
> programmers are being caught inserting bugs into their programs. Some
> of us believe that programmer insertion is the main source of bugs, and
> therefore, Ada's ability to catch them is a significant advantage. Some
And some of us believe that even compiler/runtime/system problems
are better handled by being detected rather than ignored :-).
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-06 0:00 constraint-errors Paul O Svelmoe
1996-10-06 0:00 ` constraint-errors Michael Feldman
1996-10-06 0:00 ` constraint-errors Robert Dewar
1996-10-07 0:00 ` constraint-errors Tucker Taft
1996-10-07 0:00 ` constraint-errors Michael F Brenner
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-10-10 0:00 ` constraint-errors Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-11 0:00 ` constraint-errors Robert Dewar
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