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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d901a50a5adfec3c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9f0bf354542633fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada? Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <6vdfq4$p1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 398296867 References: <3617AA49.340A5899@icon.fi> <6v9s4t$egn$1@ys.ifremer.fr> <3618dc33.0@news.passport.ca> <6vbhhc$5kj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Oct 06 16:17:08 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Ian St. John" wrote: > > Testing by itself can never guarantee correct code. The testing is just to > determine syntax errors, oversights, etc. That's a bit strong, there are definitely cases where testing can be exhaustive, e.g. in checking out a sqrt routine for IEEE short form arithmetic. Indeed it is almost practical to do exhaustive testing on long format division (which would have saved Intel many millions of dollars :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own