From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada policy enforcement
Date: 1996/03/22
Date: 1996-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.827528183@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3152E235.16F4@escmail.orl.mmc.com
> If Ada were *manifestly* better then there would be no need to enforce it.
> Enforcment is the last refuge of the terminaly confused and soon to be
> extinct. (Contract specification is a different matter, and yes you
> can spank me for the unattributed misquote.)
Sorta' like seatbelts?
Or could one say "If having everyone drive on the same side of the raod
is manifestly better then having people drive on which ever side they
please, then there would be no need to enforce the rule about driving
on the right!"
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1996-03-18 0:00 ` Ada policy enforcement Richard Pitre
1996-03-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-21 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-29 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-27 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-23 0:00 ` AdaWorks
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