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-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!tudelft.nl!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!news.wiretrip.org!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!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 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:06:00 GMT Organization: Van Ooijen Technische Informatica (www.voti.nl) Message-ID: <422bfd1b.1178705208@news.xs4all.nl> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.20.53 X-Trace: 1110179158 news.xs4all.nl 28984 [::ffff:213.84.20.53]:49618 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8798 Date: 2005-03-07T07:06:00+00:00 List-Id: >> Which is why other means are needed for quality software. Rigorous testing >> and code reviews come to mind. > >Something that some people here seem not able to accept because they >believe in the absolute protectiveness of their compiler. I think you don't want to hear that even Ada enthousiasts complement the checking of the Ada compiler with much more (as most of them/us repeatedly stated). Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------ http://www.voti.nl Webshop for PICs and other electronics http://www.voti.nl/hvu Teacher electronics and informatics