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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:35:43 +0200
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Le 11/05/2010 19:08, stefan-lucks@see-the.signature a �crit :
> I am curious. Would you be willing to share some of your experience and 
> tell us about the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches?

Yannick has answered this question now.

I would just add that SPARK is *hard* (very hard) to program but at the
end it gives you a proof just by looking at your code.

Eiffel in contrast is far more easier to program, but well the
constraints (pre/post conditions, invariants) are only checked at
runtime. Problems will be found when this part of the code is run.

I cannot say I prefer one or the other. I've stopped programming in
Eiffel long time ago now. Both are targeting different level of safety
and security to me.

I can say that my second best/preferred language is Eiffel. It is a
clean language, well designed that encourage good programming.

Pascal.

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