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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.teledata-fn.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:08:04 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Heartbleed References: <1ljwj8f.1wqbhvuabsdw1N%csampson@inetworld.net> <51c7d6d4-e3be-44d5-a4ce-f7e875345588@googlegroups.com> <%J32v.70539$kp1.45343@fx14.iad> <87mwfq4vvj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87ioqe4brz.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <534a8c34$0$6619$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Apr 2014 15:08:04 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 7eef1075.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=HI=C7ojf90?85[]]\]T0814IUKejV8bPAeP85=AY4R3WSk4]C?E= X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19290 Date: 2014-04-13T15:08:04+02:00 List-Id: On 12/04/14 23:57, Niklas Holsti wrote: > Moreover, I don't see how you can be sure that a Lisp or Python > implementation *would* have used run-time unit tags. And finally, as > GNAT now shows, unit checking can be done statically with types, which > is always IMO better for this kind of systems. The suggestions consistently make me wonder how the generalization - from: having fixed one error (with the help of an on-board Lisp compiler and remote programming) - to: a universal, "oraculous" error handling capability of Lisp programs slips the attention of its promoters.