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Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ?
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Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53270
Date: 2018-06-23T09:14:52-07:00
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On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 6:44:41 AM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 12:56:43 AM UTC-5, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> > Le 22/06/2018 =C3=A0 18:10, Simon Clubley a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> > > 3.10.2 (according to Randy)
> > >=20
> > > Personally, I don't think it's something to be proud of however.
> > >=20
> > > When a language is used in the critical environments that Ada is used=
 in,
> > > it shouldn't have anything in it which is that difficult to understan=
d.
> >=20
> > Well, it is an attempt at making pointers safer, and this is inherently
> > difficult. Other languages didn't even try...
>=20
> Except Rust nowadays, and hopefully Ada2020 will catch up

SPARK is better than Rust in terms of safety/reliability; there was a [poss=
ible] proposed extension to SPARK to allow access-types in certain, control=
led conditions that was shown to the ARG. (They asked that we not promulgat=
e it, I think because they wanted to publish/present it for their academic =
career.)