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-Thread: 103376,7a3b1c6915ea1273 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.197.100 with SMTP id it4mr866705pbc.5.1326460608073; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:16:48 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni177501pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: AdaMagica Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How many Ada compiler bugs are here? Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:16:47 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <6d352870-d204-4137-a562-5a0b67db1f80@h13g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <15d37z3l8zllg$.3z2pj9cy5kvq.dlg@40tude.net> <12560181348142702.911808rmhost.bauhaus-maps.arcor.de@news.arcor.de> <4f1026fd$0$6574$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.7.76.106 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1326460607 28280 127.0.0.1 (13 Jan 2012 13:16:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.7.76.106; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-01-13T05:16:47-08:00 List-Id: Back to the title "How many Ada compiler bugs are here?" I guess there's a countable infinity of mistakes. At any time, it's a finite number, but whenever one is corrected, it's most probable that a new one is introduced. And Ada is evolving, so implementations will produce new mistakes. I venture a wager that there is no compiler on earth that is error- free (if the language it implements is elaborate enough so that you would use it for some real project).