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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-22 20:42:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: 22 Feb 2002 22:42:18 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: <8nH9bwDSZjm1@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <5Tzc8.111999$H37.15018616@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3C73F480.5010806@mail.com> <5ee5b646.0202221911.3b96252a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1014439339 14712 192.135.80.34 (23 Feb 2002 04:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 04:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20283 Date: 2002-02-22T22:42:18-06:00 List-Id: In article , "Dann Corbit" writes: > If you use a library routine or tool composed using a dangerous language, > the result is a dangerous tool. The dangerous tool might blow up in the environment where the tool is used -- the machine where the programmer is logged in. To have something blow up in the environment where the completed program is used one does not need a dangerous tool, merely one that is not always correct. You can do the same thing with a programmer who is not always correct. Some choose to combat this with testing, formal inspection, design review, etc. The possible failures in a program vastly outnumber those that might be due to using a "dangerous" tool.