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From: Paul Dietz <paul.f.dietz@motorola.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:15:19 -0600
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Date: 2005-03-21T16:15:19-06:00
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> Still, when we hold one development environment (an Ada compiler)
> to a higher standard, we need to understand that difference when
> making comparions.  It costs a great deal more money to produce
> a compiler that must pass validation (now conformity) than to
> create one in which the defects are intended to be discovered
> by the users and fixed in some future release.

If one has a copy of the validation test suite, why is it necessary
to wait for the users to find the bugs?  Is it that you have to pay
for the cost of fixing the bugs that the users would never encounter?

	Paul