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-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!news1.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!tudelft.nl!130.161.131.116.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!transit.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: wouter@voti.nl (Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:49:52 GMT Organization: Van Ooijen Technische Informatica (www.voti.nl) Message-ID: <422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.20.53 X-Trace: 1110142191 news.xs4all.nl 43074 [::ffff:213.84.20.53]:59090 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8765 comp.lang.c++:44379 comp.realtime:1029 comp.software-eng:4561 Date: 2005-03-06T20:49:52+00:00 List-Id: >My conclusion is that there are some nice ideas out there, but that they >mainly protect against the "sloppy" programmer. You are absolutely right. The point that you are probably missing is that *everyone* is a sloppy programmer every once in a while. The frequency of this sloppiness of course varies, but it is never zero. So every sloppy mistake caught by the compiler is a good thing. Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------ http://www.voti.nl Webshop for PICs and other electronics http://www.voti.nl/hvu Teacher electronics and informatics