Re: Death by analogy Part 2 (was Re: is ada dead?)

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

In the end, all this stuff is being done by fallible human beings who are
going to do dumb things no matter what language you give them. (It probably
has something to do with the Tower of Babel.) Ada is going to help reduce
some of the truly boneheaded things programmers do when they program, but it
isn't going to stop the more diabolically clever stupidities.

We need to remember that we can't hold Ada up as a panacea or expectations
will be unreasonably high. Saying that it is going to *help* you get to good
code is true and valuable enough.

MDC
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"Ed Falis" <efalis@mediaone.net> wrote in message
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>
> Reminds me of the time ;-)
>
> ... when we had a fire to put out with a customer because their database
> system was killing the compiler.  Took a look at the thing, which had
> gratuitous, nearly recursive, instantiation of generics.  Asked the
> customer where they got that code.  "Oh, it was something we got out of
one
> of the repositories".  "Talked to the author"?  "I'll check".
>
> Turns out that the code that got put into this system was designed by the
> author as a compiler stress test for generics.  Turning a layer or two of
> instantiation inside out fixed the problem.
>
> Who was saying something about management vs language?
>