Re: Ada and Automotive Industry

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Chris says

"I was once told to use Modula 2 because it was "safe" It turned out that
the compiler suite had been written in Intel assembler (supposedly a
very unsafe language) and was full of bugs! In the end we used a Borland
C compiler as there were more tools available to check the code and (due
to sheer weight of users in the world) we were failry certain we knew of
all the problems (bugs) with the compiler. We could not find another
(successful) user of the Mod2 compiler we had much less one who had
exercised it to the level we intended to use it."

And in that quote you show you do not understand AT ALL the concept of
safety in the design of a language. It has nothing whatsoever with how
buggy or unbuggy compilers or other tools might be!