From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: c/c++ now safer than Ada. a new tool.
Date: 1999/02/18
Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7afuj4$8ic$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36CB3D0C.F01D3CD@pwfl.com
In article <36CB3D0C.F01D3CD@pwfl.com>,
diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:
> At best, a tool like this can only spot some of the more
> common errors and give you some kind of warning about it.
> If a statement is legal in a language, how can the
> machine know that it isn't precisely what I intended?
Actually it seems to me that the extent to which it is
possible to create such a tool is a direct indicator of
the quality of the language design, a negative one!
People often ask can we get a lint for Ada, and of course
the answer is no, because the kinds of things that lint
might typically find in a C program simply can't happen in
an Ada program in the first place :-)
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1999-02-17 0:00 c/c++ now safer than Ada. a new tool mike
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Gautier
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