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,f039470e8f537101 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-27 19:11:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ References: <1058968422.225561@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F200AD0.94F79098@adaworks.com> <7u9Ua.13412$634.10307@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <3F215120.1040706@attbi.com> <1059151910.357790@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:11:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.157.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1059358318 162.83.157.195 (Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:11:58 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:11:58 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40884 Date: 2003-07-28T02:11:58+00:00 List-Id: Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > Good opportunity, isn't it? -:) I suppose you're right, but as a C++ programmer, naturally I wouldn't have thought of it :-) I've said before that one of the things I believe is that writing the specifications and constraints for a program in precise detail is equivalent to writing the program itself. Most real constraints aren't as simple as having a variable fall into one fixed range, so I think after a while you can't rely on built-in language elements to express them. It can all get very complicated very fast.