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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 05:04:21 GMT
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In article <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com>,
  Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote:
> Nobody forces you to answer them.
> I personally wouldn't like to ride on an airplane programmed
by R.Dewar who would certainly
> explained he expected the plane to crash because the compiler
behaves as he expects ...
> Now some people have the right to believe that they are your
victim, when Ada remains
> nearly unused in comparison with C or Java, due to Ada world
reputation.

Well if you have ever been on a 777, you have in fact already
ridden on an airplane partly programmed by R. Dewar, and no,
he did not expect the plane to crash, he did however know
what he was doing when he wrote the code. In particular,
I always like to 100% understand the semantics and syntax
of a language I am writing in so that there is never any
experimental dependence on what a given compiler happens
to do.

In Ada I achieve that by writing in a rather simple subset
of the language (I am always amazed by the fearless behavior
of some Ada programmers in using the most complex parts of
the language without hesitation :-)



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