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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-13 02:36:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <82347202.0306101232.16776a81@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: C bug of the day X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:37:38 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.62.124 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1055497005 219.88.62.124 (Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:36:45 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:36:45 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39091 Date: 2003-06-13T21:37:38+12:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:d6652001.0306120439.75bdfe78@posting.google.com... > Obviously, you concentrate on the most important problems first:-). > Good luck. (I rather doubt that a language can be both safe and > popular. History, at any rate, is against you.) Mind if I try to take it on a bit of a tangent? Why do you think the things like TDD and unit-testing are getting so much attention lately? Could it (possibly) be that they just try to fill-in the role that a safe language would do as a matter of course? Sort of trying to compensate for deficiencies of a language with some home-grown solutions?