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: 103376,2c0fbdd9804eddab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: c/c++ now safer than Ada. a new tool. Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: <7afuj4$8ic$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445541872 References: <7af49j$hti@drn.newsguy.com> <7af7ri$fsj$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <36CB3D0C.F01D3CD@pwfl.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.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: Thu Feb 18 02:40:38 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own