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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0123581076a0cf3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-08 10:10:31 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!slsv6bt!slbh01.bln.sel.alcatel.de!rcvie!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!psinntp!cmcl2!jpmorgan.com!jpmorgan.com!usenet From: jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com (John Goodsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks Date: 07 Sep 1994 22:46:48 GMT Organization: The Dalmatian Group, Inc. Message-ID: References: <1994Sep1.084046.21595@sei.cmu.edu> <344u9q$di5@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <347idh$15ss@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <1994Sep4.092729.21408@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinidad.ny.jpmorgan.com In-reply-to: davidk@mcil.comm.mot.com's message of Sun, 4 Sep 1994 09:27:29 GMT Date: 1994-09-07T22:46:48+00:00 List-Id: In article <1994Sep4.092729.21408@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> davidk@mcil.comm.mot.com (David Kramer) writes: To add to Norman Cohen's list of reasons why an Ada compiler is more effective than lint: It is much too easy to get around type mismatches in C - as any unscrupulous C programmer knows - all you have to do is use a cast! (eg. (Apples)oranges = apples). The lints that I have used had no problems with this - in fact in one project I worked on we were instructed to use lint and to have no warnings. The way our 'project leader' 'fixed' type mismatch problems was by casting it away! This isn't much easier than doing unchecked conversions in Ada. You identified a project management/process problem, not really a technological advantage of one language over another... -- -- John Goodsen Currently on-site at: The Dalmatian Group JP Morgan User Interface Specialists 60 Wall St., New York City jgoodsen@radsoft.com jgoodsen@jpmorgan.com