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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 13:25:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B841545.2B8F5E94@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Subtle Bugs, kudos Ada (was How Ada ...Red Code ...) References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <9m0193$grs$1@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B83F042.4CFB073D@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:25:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:25:40 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12288 comp.lang.c:76223 comp.lang.c++:84937 Date: 2001-08-22T20:25:40+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > >Just the other day, I came across a subtle C problem, that was > >discovered when I ported the algorthm to Ada95. I checked the > >most recent version of SoX source, and the problem _still_ > >exists there, apparently still undiscovered. > > Its truly *amazing* how many times I've heard that exact same story (although > the other language is not always C). I've even heard one person seriously > suggest that an Ada port may be a good idea for projects that have no intention > of using the Ada port, just to catch some more bugs. I think that's probably a > bit extreme though. :-) Heh heh, an interesting idea ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg