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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ddc669e8cf09b24 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-17 09:33:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!216.166.71.14!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:33:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:33:13 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Debugger Rant References: <254c16a.0307110505.463b1cc0@posting.google.com> <3F148F80.1000708@attbi.com> <254c16a.0307161124.633c9245@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <254c16a.0307161124.633c9245@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.35 X-Trace: sv3-NkkfhAcHkZtRgBtM18aZE0+/89GvlhnLzK0Jb9azTkdUWiQXHRMY9duimGhnAew8Ij5no0cVuhwvRhB!kOd7sG9fu09DofHhM0doHUQc7kn03klzQYedDYRBtUk2JYu63LiwFfrR2kgm6vytR+er7U30ggIG!y2DA X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40411 Date: 2003-07-17T11:33:13-05:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley wrote: > After several years of reading the occasional response to an Ada > newbie that they'll virtually never need a debugger when programming > in Ada (as well as that if the code compiles, it'll probably work)--I > just got fed up with it. OK, how about: If the code compiles, it's far more likely to work than C code that compiles. (It may take trillions of monkeys on keyboards to duplicate a Shakespeare sonnet, but it only takes a thousand to make something that passes a C compiler.) :-)