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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,abd508cccb4803ea,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 09:09:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0E09BA.A492AA3D@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: C.A.R. Hoare on liability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:09:30 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1024330192 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:09:52 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:09:52 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26163 Date: 2002-06-17T11:09:30-05:00 List-Id: Tying together two recent threads, a quote from "The Emperor's Old Clothes": ... we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them would be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users ahve not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau