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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8893269a4640c798 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-23 20:44:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: terminate applications References: <8vITa.131261$ye4.92300@sccrnsc01> In-Reply-To: <8vITa.131261$ye4.92300@sccrnsc01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <8CITa.22321$0F4.22242@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:44:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.157.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1059018244 162.83.157.195 (Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:44:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:44:04 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40746 Date: 2003-07-24T03:44:04+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > Of course you do. You make it less convenient for the fast acting, > slow thinking, programmer to shoot himself in the foot, at the cost of > minor inconvenience on those less common occasions when system abort is > actually necessary. I have an idea! Every once in a while, Ada programming environments should randomly change a character somewhere in a source file. This will force the programmer to reread all the code looking for the error, making him become more acquainted with the program, and allowing hin to serendipitously find lurking bugs.