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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:46:01 -0500 Organization: Ain't no organization here! Message-ID: <39elckF5ubropU2@individual.net> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <42309456$1@news.broadpark.no> <4hIVAmTjB5Hj@eisner.encompasserve.org> Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kJEVdjGdY4+aJvBIHJlEjw/LnPTm2D8UIMB7thxeqmGuQe9J74 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4hIVAmTjB5Hj@eisner.encompasserve.org> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9185 Date: 2005-03-11T17:46:01-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > If I understand where the various posters are coming from, there have not > been any Ada users saying "if it compiles it is right", but rather "if it > fails to compile, it is wrong" and "Ada will fail to compile on a larger > number of errors than many other languages". I prefer to say, "Ada will refuse to compile a larger number of errors...." -- Wes Groleau There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. -- George Orwell