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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27d18afb7e198c7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SlashDot reviews the SPARK book Date: 20 May 2004 11:08:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <20619edc.0405201008.1742603e@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.8.35.213 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1085076515 14362 127.0.0.1 (20 May 2004 18:08:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:709 Date: 2004-05-20T11:08:34-07:00 List-Id: Mark Lorenzen wrote in message news:... > rod.chapman@praxis-cs.co.uk (Rod Chapman) writes: > > > ...subject line says it all. This is actually Jack > > Ganssle's review of the book, which was noted on c.l.a > > back in December. Still...no such thing as bad publicity! :-) > > All the best, > > Rod, SPARK Team > > My previous posting apparently crossed yours. And yes, there probably > is no such thing as bad publicity, but it is frustrating to read the > comments on the /. message board. Yeah, so many like this one: "Now, is there a language to ensure that your boss asks you to program the right thing?" Funny thing is, none of these people actually live their lives that way -- deciding that no precautions or advantages are worthwhile, since no precaution or advantage can cover every possible situation. Mike