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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public From: Bertrand Meyer Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/03/21 Message-ID: <33335686.FF6D5DF@eiffel.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 227453146 References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <332D113B.4A64@calfp.co.uk> <5gm8a6$2qu$2@news.irisa.fr> <3332BE49.8F9@lmtas.lmco.com> <33330FE5.3F54BC7E@eiffel.com> <33332363.41C6@lanl.gov> Organization: Interactive Software Engineering Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: William Clodius wrote: > I hope I am correct in my memory, but I believe Tony Hoare's criticism > of Ada's exception handling mechanism in this context is sufficiently > general in its comments to apply to any modern exception handling > mechanisms You may have a point. Hoare's article, in the part about Ada, talks about "a plethora of features and notational conventions, many of them unnecessary and some of them, like exception handling, even dangerous". I understand this remark (partly on the basis of verbal comments heard at the time) as a criticism of Ada's specific exception handling, but it is possible to understand it as an indictment of exception handling in general. -- Bertrand Meyer, President, ISE Inc., Santa Barbara (California) 805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, - ftp://ftp.eiffel.com Visit our Web page: http://www.eiffel.com (including instructions to download Eiffel 4 for Windows)