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-Thread: 103376,904a7ecd269a9245 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C compiler warnings References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <9Yjdh.1087752$084.448565@attbi_s22> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1165347717 12.201.97.213 (Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:41:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:41:57 GMT Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:41:57 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7812 Date: 2006-12-05T19:41:57+00:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: > This story, while not strictly related to Ada, might interest some > people here. It seems to show that while Ada is going in one direction > (strict compiler checking of code), C is going in the opposite > direction (assume the developer knows what he/she is doing). Going in the opposite direction? C's basic design philosophy has always been to make that assumption. It seems to me that the C compilers with extensive warnings are the ones going in an unusual direction. I wish they'd all get rid of the warnings; then maybe more people would use a well designed language. -- Jeff Carter "We use a large, vibrating egg." Annie Hall 44