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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d68c502c0ae6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/05 Message-ID: <1999Mar5.071756.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 451535467 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <7bfc2n$jl9@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <7bhh26$r7c$1@remarQ.com> <36DCAC1F.430E2C5E@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bk5c2$8ge$1@remarQ.com> <36DDA9BA.E005E578@aasaa.ofe.org> <36DE3744.13F6A16A@omicron.se> <36DD54D2.141B@ddre.dk> <7bn19b$7h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36DE53BC.1AE0@ddre.dk> X-Trace: news.decus.org 920636280 16248 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36DE53BC.1AE0@ddre.dk>, Hans Marqvardsen writes: > What really amazes me is that even though good people has spent good > time > designing a validation procedure where specific compilers are > validated for specific operating systems, > then one of these good people claims that > > 1. this procedure may validate combinations that in his own words > behave annoying and silly and undoubtedly would be rejected by the > marketplace. > > 2. the validation process would seriously broken, if it were to > consider these problems. I am not amazed in the least. The purpose of validation should be to address those issues that are not well handled by informal methods. For the proposed example of a compiler that limited program size to 1 line, that would be quickly rejected by the first would-be customer (and likely would not run the validation suite either, but I digress). It would be a waste of money to formally validate that a compiler handled something that users will quickly judge for themselves anyway, such as whether the display of the "Ada Inside" logo was of the proper size :-). Larry Kilgallen