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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fee8802cc3d8334d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem. Date: 1999/06/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 491250318 References: <7jt2c0$vrb@drn.newsguy.com> <7k57vb$1ipf@drn.newsguy.com> <3766650F.705125B7@pwfl.com> <7k64t7$igo$1@its.hooked.net> <7k689a$ci2@drn.newsguy.com> <3766C842.E1EAB60A@pwfl.com> <3766D1CC.D712895E@itools.symantec.com> <7k8nn5$qcb$1@its.hooked.net> <3767E8A2.EF1A0570@itools.symantec.com> <7k8tv3$3gm@drn.newsguy.com> <3769506F.157411C0@mitre.org> <7kbujm$1kb@drn.newsguy.com> <7ke2dg$2a7a@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@cs.rmit.edu.au X-Trace: emu.cs.rmit.edu.au 929748629 19242 131.170.66.207 (18 Jun 1999 23:30:29 GMT) Organization: RMIT NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jun 1999 23:30:29 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-18T23:30:29+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: " > At worst, a programmer can simply start their method with a try, and > end it with a catch. In the Ariane 5 case, efficiency considerations dictated that unnecessary tests could not be left in the code." I'm not sure you know the field. From what i've read here and elsewhere extra code is not left in for performance reasons, but because they don't want code that is not going to do anything in there. Having software that is not used placed in production code is what caused the failure in the first place! (Anyway Ariane 501 was a test flight - and they found a bug. What a good test it was! :-) Dale