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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107d55,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Dale Stanbrough Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/03/23 Message-ID: <5h1sbt$pds$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 227724532 Distribution: world References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <33343975.31DFF4F5@eiffel.com> <33335686.FF6D5DF@eiffel.com> <33343EE3.7DE14518@eiffel.com> X-XXMessage-ID: Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.tech Date: 1997-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bertrand Meyer writes: "You may have a point. Hoare's article, in the part about Ada, talks about "a plethora of features and notational conventions, many of them unnecessary and some of them, like exception handling, even dangerous". I understand this remark (partly on the basis of verbal comments heard at the time) as a criticism of Ada's specific exception handling, but it is possible to understand it as an indictment of exception handling in general." Oh dear, more FUD being spread. Perhaps a more modern (1987!) quote will help everyone here. Tony Hoare in his foreword to "Ada: Language and Methodology" by Watt, Wichmann and Findlay wrote... (1987) ... the language incorporates many excellent structural features which have proved their value ... ... unfortunate delay in ... implementation ... coming to an end and ... ... one can look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in programming practice ... ... I hope the book will be useful ... to those who have the privilege ... to use the language ... The original commments from Hoare (circa 1980) are from an early review of the language, before it was finalised. My, but urban legends take a long time to die. Furthermore the language has been updated in Ada95, making Betrand Meyer's comments even further out of date. Dale