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: 103376,1ce6fddc56263182 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ravenscar and run-time program parameters References: <1188373703.936484.105650@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1188523762 12.201.97.213 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:29:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:29:22 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:29:23 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1613 Date: 2007-08-31T01:29:23+00:00 List-Id: Colin Paul Gloster wrote: > > Why would you be more confident that one is good under some > circumstances (simply using RavenSPARK) but be more confident that the > other is good under other circumstances (simply not using RAVENSCAR)? I guess I wasn't clear. I was referring to whether or not I'm going to invest in the analyses that Ravenscar is intended for. If I do that, especially using RavenSPARK, which does additional analyses, then I can be confident despite the added complexity. But if I don't consider the code worth that extra effort, then I find I'm more likely to be confident in the simpler code. -- Jeff Carter "Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple." Charles Babbage 92