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: 103376,3dc908471c2a25ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-26 12:00:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!router1.news.adelphia.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: My Ada Future Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:59:17 -0500 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: References: <20031125081548.89AB44C40CA@lovelace.ada-france.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cse.msu.edu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2972 Date: 2003-11-26T14:59:17-05:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:FvOdnTelZorKWVmi4p2dnA@comcast.com... > I used to cheat, and when I have to have code written in C, it still > works. For something budgeted at say a month in C, I can spend one week > developing it in Ada, a few days writting a rigorous test suite, then > transform the code into C one routine at a time. I always seemed to be > able to finish well within schedule, and still get the much higher > quality associated with Ada. The only thing you have to watch is a > tendancy to "think C" while coding the Ada. You need to use the full > richness of Ada, especially in the interfaces before tranforming to C, > or you let bugs leak through. I use to do this with programming assignments when professors wouldn't let me turn in assignments written Ada. I agree that this is a surprisingly useful technique. -CRM