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: 103376,93a8020cc980d113 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!fdn.fr!freenix!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <461E6DD9.6010600@obry.net> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:35:21 +0200 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: kevin cline Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada? References: <1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <461B52A6.20102@obry.net> <461BA892.3090002@obry.net> <82dgve.spf.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1176226291.589741.257600@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <4eaive.6p9.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1176396382.586729.195490@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1176396382.586729.195490@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Apr 2007 19:35:23 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.124.243.161 X-Trace: 1176399323 news.orange.fr 5106 82.124.243.161:2514 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14952 Date: 2007-04-12T19:35:23+02:00 List-Id: kevin cline a �crit : > On Apr 11, 6:45 pm, Brian May wrote: >>>>>>> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Rosen writes: >> Jean-Pierre> My experience is that recompiling (generally a single >> Jean-Pierre> body where you added the trace) is much faster than >> Jean-Pierre> starting the debugger, setting breakpoints, skipping >> Jean-Pierre> lots of unnecessary breaks, and so on. >> >> Assuming you notice that a bug exists. This is a big problem I have >> had especially with most interpreted languages. The only way you can >> be sure the code is bug free is too regularly test every possible >> path, including different error conditions.... > > Are you claiming that use of Ada makes it safe to release code that > has never been tested? Are you reading properly ? "The only way" for interpreted languages, for compiled languages (as said in my previous message) the compiler will detect lot of mistakes. So it is not the only way in this case. I'm wondering if you are not moving to the troll side! Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595