From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference)
Date: 24 Dec 2003 22:35:23 -0800
Date: 2003-12-24T22:35:23-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bebbba07.0312242235.33b86222@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3FEA5C82.8050309@noplace.com
Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message news:<3FEA5C82.8050309@noplace.com>...
> The cost would *not* be near zero. Someone has to first work out all the
> legality rules and specify them in appropriate legalese for the ARM.
> Someone has to review and debate the new rules & test it against other
> rules to make sure it doesn't intercourse anything up. Someone has to go
> out and change every compiler that is currently being maintained, test
> it adequately to make sure it still works and then shepard it through
> validation. Someone has to write the validation suite - complete with
> cases that must be rejected by the compiler - not just ones that work.
> Someone has to argue that their compiler really did pass the suite with
> someone who has to argue that it didn't. Etc., etc., etc.
Whining like that over the smallest change makes really me wonder
about the future of Ada. If such a tiny change is so monumental, how
the hell are you guys going to handle significant changes?
I wonder if soldiers whine like that when they are imposed upon to
keep their barracks clean? After all, they have *much* more important
things to do -- like fight wars.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-25 6:35 UTC|newest]
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2003-12-17 1:01 ` SIGada Conference Stephen Leake
2003-12-17 3:19 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-18 6:55 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-12-18 15:23 ` Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference) Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-18 18:27 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-19 7:38 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-19 23:10 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-19 8:51 ` Russ
2003-12-19 17:03 ` tmoran
2003-12-20 0:43 ` Russ
2003-12-19 23:18 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-20 7:05 ` Russ
2003-12-20 9:06 ` Nick Roberts
2003-12-20 17:43 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-22 0:07 ` Russ
[not found] ` <bfcib1-r43.ln1@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
2003-12-22 17:10 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-22 18:25 ` Larry Hazel
2003-12-23 16:55 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-12-24 13:17 ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-24 14:57 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-25 3:26 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-03 19:03 ` Pascal Obry
2003-12-24 20:16 ` Russ
2003-12-24 21:41 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-25 2:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-25 3:42 ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-25 6:35 ` Russ [this message]
2003-12-25 12:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-25 15:38 ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-26 20:09 ` Russ
2003-12-27 3:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-27 7:40 ` Russ
2003-12-27 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-28 5:56 ` Russ
2003-12-27 11:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-27 12:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-28 11:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-28 13:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-28 19:43 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-28 20:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-28 19:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-29 6:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-29 11:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-29 13:36 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-12-29 6:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-27 18:43 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-28 11:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-28 19:59 ` Robert A Duff
2003-12-30 18:03 ` Peter Richtmyer
2003-12-30 23:02 ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-12-27 21:56 ` Russ
2003-12-27 22:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-28 11:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-28 18:14 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-28 19:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-29 2:08 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-29 11:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-29 13:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-12-29 17:07 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-28 23:17 ` Russ
2003-12-28 23:45 ` Wes Groleau
2003-12-27 14:09 ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-27 19:25 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-28 1:47 ` Russ
2003-12-23 10:49 ` come from joke (was " Peter Hermann
2003-12-23 12:19 ` come from joke Samuel Tardieu
2003-12-23 17:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2003-12-23 22:03 ` Wes Groleau
2003-12-25 0:37 ` Stephane Richard
2003-12-27 1:00 ` John Woodruff
2003-12-24 18:48 ` Simon Wright
2003-12-23 12:39 ` come from joke (was Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference) Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-12-23 15:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-23 16:03 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-12-23 16:12 ` Peter Hermann
2003-12-22 18:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-12-20 19:44 ` tmoran
2003-12-22 18:22 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-12-20 0:39 ` Russ
2003-12-20 1:44 ` unknown
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