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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison) Subject: Re: Safety-critical development in Ada and Eiffel Date: 1997/07/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 256082246 Sender: news@syd.csa.com.au X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dev50 References: Organization: CSC Australia, Sydney Reply-To: donh@syd.csa.com.au Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-07-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I wrote: :2) Eiffel's contracts are stronger, more general, more flexible and more powerful : than in standard Ada. This doesn't mean Ada's contracting is useless by : any means. It's a tribute to the designers of Ada83 that support for : predefined contracts was included at the time it was designed. I'm : disappointed, of course, that they were omitted from Ada95. ^^^^ This should read "Eiffel-like assertions". Don. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don Harrison donh@syd.csa.com.au