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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: employment with ada
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 19:04:56 -0400
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> > I was thinking the links, but C/C++ are unsuitable for practical formal
> > analysis.
>
> And so is Ada, since SPARK gets there by doing things like eliminating
> pointers.

Yes Ada has some ambiguous features that make formal analysis difficult, but
fortunately Ada can be subseted into well defined languages like SPARK. ;)