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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-06 04:01:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40728DDA.2000706@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <87r7v5zao0.fsf@insalien.org> <6803831.c4KqqVc08g@linux1.krischik.com> <87vfkgy9z6.fsf@insalien.org> <87zn9sjc5r.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:00:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.65.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1081249259 165.247.65.194 (Tue, 06 Apr 2004 04:00:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 04:00:59 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6766 Date: 2004-04-06T11:00:59+00:00 List-Id: Measurements I've made of error rates tend to indicate that when everything is an int and the programmer has to make his own range checks and scalings and so forth, that error rates are *significantly* higher. People get lazy or make mistakes. Compilers apply predefined rules over and over and over and..... One is more likely than the other to get it wrong. Guess which? :-) Or are we talking about that "Any *Competent* Programmer..." again? :-) MDC Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > Maybe along these lines: > If everything is an int you have do spend lots of time making sure > you use the correct ranges in all sorts of places, and write code > which does this correctly. > Likewise you don't just rely on type systems to find the correct > subprogram, but think hard about it, use different names explicitly?.... -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================