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-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:49:07 -0500 Organization: Ain't no organization here! Message-ID: <3aeo43F67lvh9U2@individual.net> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1111607633.301232.62490@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> 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 8342WYxRpir85rXXtzS96QR85oOTjRmeDSm5NRl8BQ9vv0oFmN User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9875 comp.lang.c++:46976 comp.realtime:1661 comp.software-eng:5267 Date: 2005-03-23T21:49:07-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1111607633.301232.62490@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, "Jerry Coffin" writes: > >>Some of the cited cases provide checks that are free in terms of >>run-time, but run-time is hardly the major cost in most software. > > Really ? He's right. Most software is written in languages where debugging time is the major cost. :-) -- Wes Groleau Armchair Activism: http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html