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: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-10 21:03:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8C3B72.5050107@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> <3C8A3999.2000301@earthlink.net> <3C8B0191.3080705@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:03:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.250.122 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1015822992 162.83.250.122 (Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:03:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:03:12 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21032 Date: 2002-03-11T05:03:12+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > I do not believe that the automatic checking provided by Ada makes > programmers behave sloppily. There is some pride in writing code > that the compiler will accept on the first try. From there on, > the individual zeal for quality can only be further sustained by > addressing those problems that are not susceptible to automation. I point out that here in c.l.a. in a recent thread it was reported that some pice of Adaware (I don't remember if it was GNAT itself or some associated package) failed to run when installed in a directory whose pathname contained blanks. This is excatly the kind of issue that leads to scripting problems - the piece of software fails to distinguish between blanks which are part of a name and blanks which are separators. So if you think that Ada programmers will avoid these kinds of problems because of some kind of inbuilt virtuosity, you can see that you are wrong.