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: 103376,587e0e0a16d65b10 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia! Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:53:57 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1tw8gryqdolal$.1osqedj9x821c.dlg@40tude.net> <5c44eaae-631d-46d2-8384-86af79d5e048@n20g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <944a1924-0fa7-487f-a94d-084a2be1b231@v31g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9f2553d3-66f5-4708-a237-bfef1d8404f4@v42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <4013d6a4-f4f4-4d6e-92bd-161687608db9@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <49a58a60$0$30235$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QKW5xcoKOzRMpR3RsSFWVAfAZC90hBwcFfu4nPMcUeLW67qz3H Cancel-Lock: sha1:WUsZY1S9jBRsCv4e+c6w9dckN3w= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.14.0.081024 Thread-Topic: Invade wikipedia! Thread-Index: AcmXemmVt9j9LwRh7UapwzaVynx3iA== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3796 Date: 2009-02-25T18:53:57+00:00 List-Id: On 25/02/2009 18:13, in article 49a58a60$0$30235$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net, "Georg Bauhaus" wrote: > (see below) schrieb: >> On 25/02/2009 08:59, in article >> 4013d6a4-f4f4-4d6e-92bd-161687608db9@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com, "Hibou57 >> (Yannick Duch�ne)" wrote: > >>> If comments are dangerous, so the human though which drives the >>> application developpement (or order it), is as much dangerous. >> >> True, but the compiler checks the human (through their code). >> It does not check the comments. > > All the more we could profit from pre/post assertions > and invariant type constraints specified by the programmer. > Perfectly clear, checkable, and international. > > Doesn't someone have the ressouces to help Randy Brukardt > continue his work on these? Please! :-) :-) :-) Could I encourage Randy to say something about this? I had not heard of this work before, and it sounds very valuable. -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk