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,b36bbdc1595d0665 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.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: SPARK code samples Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1iq8kg021bo4v$.s51i2enx3fzo.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XqYEsjO5f06BB3T/sxQ3qQ5OMB3HuqUG5BP/zpZn6qkqUJ8zlv Cancel-Lock: sha1:shwW2uESDJNHhjUdR/xmH/BWn88= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.23.0.091001 Thread-Topic: SPARK code samples Thread-Index: Acs5cuRUK8CreQMkPEKBTk38UfZeTA== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13127 Date: 2010-08-11T17:33:13+01:00 List-Id: On 11/08/2010 17:07, in article fa1507ef-77a8-4a28-b271-2293c5115278@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, "Mark Lorenzen" wrote: > On 11 Aug., 13:38, Ada novice wrote: >> >> Thanks for this information. I'm interested to learn SPARK. If I >> understand correctly, SPARK aligns itself well with Ada 95 and not yet >> with Ada 05. Is this because of the strictness of SPARK to provide >> highly reliable codes and hence it contains only well-tested features >> (subset of Ada features)? It would be interesting to see some SPARK >> codes on the wiki page building over time. > > Not quite. SPARK is a proper subset of Ada and is amenable to static > analysis. This has (in principle) nothing to do with if an Ada feature > is well-tested or not. You should think of SPARK as a language in its > own right and not as a subset of some other language. Why? -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk