From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Elaboration_check For Instantiations
Date: 1997/10/29
Date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <345774b3.1434102@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34573CCF.4DE4@pseserv3.fw.hac.com
>> never been happy as a programmer when a compiler says, "I'm smarter
>> than you are and I'm not going to allow you to do what you want."
>This is the argument many C programmers use against Ada. Those that
>really understand C AND never make mistakes write working programs.
Unless the compiler is buggy, the fact it won't allow something the
programmer wrote is proof the programmer either did not understand the
language or made a mistake writing it. So the compiler has
demonstrated that it is, in fact, smarter than the programmer. ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-29 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-23 0:00 Elaboration_check For Instantiations Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
[not found] ` <345774b3.1434102@santaclara01.news.internex.net>
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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