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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Paul E. Bennett" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:29:12 +0000 Organization: HIDECS Consultancy Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: peb@amleth.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: amleth.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1110151673 21452 80.176.76.193 (6 Mar 2005 23:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:27:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 Mail-Copies-To: mail2news@news.demon.co.uk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8784 comp.lang.c++:44401 comp.realtime:1042 comp.software-eng:4575 Date: 2005-03-06T23:29:12+00:00 List-Id: Peter Koch Larsen wrote: > > "Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)" skrev i en meddelelse > news:422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl... >> >My conclusion is that there are some nice ideas out there, but that they >>>mainly protect against the "sloppy" programmer. >> >> You are absolutely right. >> >> The point that you are probably missing is that *everyone* is a sloppy >> programmer every once in a while. The frequency of this sloppiness of >> course varies, but it is never zero. So every sloppy mistake caught by >> the compiler is a good thing. Even I admit to having my sloppy moments. Fortunately they don't last too long and reviews and/or testing catch those moments before they progress very far. > Which is why other means are needed for quality software. Rigorous testing > and code reviews come to mind. Something that some people here seem not able to accept because they believe in the absolute protectiveness of their compiler. -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett .................... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy ..... Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-811095 Going Forth Safely ....EBA. http://www.electric-boat-association.org.uk/ ********************************************************************