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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9d5fc258548b22a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:07:19 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <4d4ff70e$0$6886$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <737a6396-72bd-4a1e-8895-7d50f287960e@d28g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> <4d5008a5$0$6879$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <4d5031fe$0$6765$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <1f229967-d3cf-42b6-8087-c97ee08652f3@i40g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4d51169e$0$7657$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <4d51905c$0$19486$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <36212a7b-deab-45d9-ac45-aa29cd90c7bc@o18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <4d51a7bb$0$19486$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d52b489$0$19486$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <9a8njlwvey1p.1a96yvvgdf6yu.dlg@40tude.net> <4d52c5e5$0$19486$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4d52d7d9$0$18057$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 917fba5b.usenet-news.net X-Trace: DXC=VH3K8A9[lLJ\U\LJTjZF:E^oXGM_6\KV@mX0AG3X_jUO<^JMhOhjP4NVjKk:Lk^BNAcR12TN^Bg7NCKIHCW3N^VDOiaDcmXlf@E X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17105 Date: 2011-02-09T13:07:19-05:00 List-Id: On 2/9/2011 12:49 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > There is nothing beyond the requirements. You cannot use the word "requirements" as if it is simple. What are the requirements of an Ada compiler? I submit that specifying the requirements of a program is identical to writing that program, and you are only fooling yourself if you believe otherwise. > Hmm, isn't murder a criminal offence in the US? And look there is a huge > crowd of leftists lobbying for taking guns away. The same people are silent > about cars! They could at least require that cars were in state property. > No? Cars kill thousands, but these are acceptable deaths. Actually, the same crowd of leftists would be happy to take away the cars as well. Furthermore, many car deaths could be avoided by design changes - we could armor cars like tanks, and we could limit their speed to under thirty miles per hour for example. But our legal system does not require this of car manufacturers, and it would similarly not hold software makers liable for not using Ada. >> And in fact, people treat computer programs as they do other more >> physical objects. > > Not really. Legally you don't even own most of the programs you are using. Irrelevant. People treat computer programs as they do other more physical objects regardless of what the law says. >> They work around problems, they upgrade to better >> versions, and they complain. > > They were educated by MS and others. This does not mean that the current > way is sustainable. Most people in c.l.a. believe that it is not. Yes this > is in disagreement with the vast majority of people, professionals > included. What does sustainable mean? As the decades pass I see more and better software everywhere, including from MS. I see no evidence that software is failing to keep up with what it needs to do. I just see the same old handful of people complaining because no one uses their pet language.