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: 103376,253505146ffff940 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: The greatest feature of the language is .... Date: 2000/10/07 Message-ID: <8rna14$ib2$1@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 678648539 References: <39DCBA28.E504523B@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 970926948 18786 193.250.69.237 (7 Oct 2000 13:55:48 GMT) Organization: Adalog X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Oct 2000 13:55:48 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-07T13:55:48+00:00 List-Id: > After a couple of years developing with Ada (and C and FORTRAN and...) i > think the most > valuable issue is the "Ada way of thinking": > "In god we trust - anything else we check!" > A very good one ! Similarly, when I teach, every now and then someone asks: "does the compiler check that....". I immediately stop the guy and answer: "You are very welcome to ask questions at any point. But to save some time, for every question that starts with "does the compiler check that....", the answer is YES". -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog