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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-18 19:46:04 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Array mappings Date: 18 Dec 1994 22:46:04 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3d2vls$pj7@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <9412061309.AA02026@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <3csnqi$3ee@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3d2qk0$qop@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-12-18T22:46:04-05:00 List-Id: "An Ada implementor who really cared would have delivered [more reliable compilers]" This is really silly. THe implication that bugs in early Ada compilers were due to lack of care and concern for specific markets has no basis in fact. Ada has always had extremely high reliability requirements in all markets (one can argue that the embedded real-time market is a much higher reliability-requirement market than numerical computation). Sure early Ada compilers had bugs (early anything compilers have bugs), but this was a matter of maturity, and you can be sure that all Ada vendors were working extremely hard to improve reliability. Perhaps they did not succeed as well as you might hope, but to ascribe that to deliberate lack of care won't wash." If you rest your case on this weak and unsupportable observation, it is indeed a weak case!