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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-23 02:30:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Subtle Bugs, kudos Ada (was How Ada ...Red Code ...) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:12:53 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9m2ibc$4h4$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <9m0193$grs$1@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B83F042.4CFB073D@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 998558892 4644 195.25.228.57 (23 Aug 2001 09:28:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:28:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12316 comp.lang.c:76356 comp.lang.c++:85101 Date: 2001-08-23T11:12:53+02:00 List-Id: "Kaz Kylheku" a �crit dans le message news: nHUg7.93012$B37.2083519@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com... > So we could say a number of things besides ``sox is written in the > wrong programming language''. > [...] > > Would you hire the programmer who wrote this function, to work with you > on a project in *any* programming language? > Yes, programmers make errors. Two quotes that I love to bring together: >From one of the first books about C by K&R: "C was designed on the assumption that the programmer is someone sensible who knows what he's doing" >From the introduction of the Ada Reference Manual: "Ada was designed with the concern of programming as a human activity" The fact that these starting hypothesis lead to two completely different philosophies of languages is left as a subject for meditation... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr