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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Overriding discriminants perplexes GNAT 3.14p
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Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
: My point was simple, a wider use gives a better product. The 
: bugs I saw in GNAT would be detected earlier if more software were written 
: in Ada and compiled with GNAT, just a statistical observation.

Maybe. But only if a higher number of program writers uses a
higher number of all kinds of language features in different
program contexts. As a test for the statistical observation,
are the popular compilers for other languages better by the
factor of OtherLanguageProgramAuthors / Ada_Program_Authors?

-- Georg