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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-15 18:53:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0BEF81.8010704@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes References: <3D0B813A.3040204@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 01:53:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.247.204 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1024192381 162.83.247.204 (Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:53:01 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:53:01 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26055 Date: 2002-06-16T01:53:01+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > But in general, almost every Ada programmer agrees that exceptions are to > be avoided. Not as a language feature, but as evidence of a bad program. Really? I find this utterly astonishing. So almost every Ada program is littered with error handling code interpenetrating the normal working logic? Or do Ada programs ignore eror codes just like old C programs did?