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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:22:41 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> 2. Your confidence describes you, it does not the program. It fact, it
>> is like - I give my word, it works. Fine, but why anybody should trust
>> my word?
> 
> Because you are a gentleman? (sorry -- been re-watching Lost In Austen!)

A measure of being gentleman?

> Because you have given your word in the past and it has proved
> trustworthy?

Proved how, means, measures? BTW, statistics isn't applicable here either.
Let you write the same program 100 times. What is the probability that you
won't make a mistake X? It is not a probability. The code deviation after
stripping factors of learning, tiredness, disgust, rebellion is null.

> Because you are a member of a professional organisation (eg, chartered
> engineer)?

Substitutes words of other people for mine. (And be sure, they use mine in
support of theirs! (:-))

> Because you've been following appropriate review processes?

Made by other members of the clique, by state bureaucrats? 

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de