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: 103376,42427d0d1bf647b1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) Subject: Re: Ada validation is virtually worthless Date: 1996/04/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146361518 references: <00001a73+00002c20@msn.com> <828038680.5631@assen.demon.co.uk> <828127251.85@assen.demon.co.uk> <315FD5C9.342F@lfwc.lockheed.com> <3160EFBF.BF9@lfwc.lockheed.com> <3162B080.490F@lfwc.lockheed.com> <828648378.5095@assen.demon.co.uk> <3166f922.3484257@news.sydney.apana.org.au> organization: Ada Consulting newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: > Ada is the only language I know of where > the incidence of vendor extensions of the language is essentially nil. Robert apparently misspoke himself here, intending to refer to vendor extensions beyond those provided for in the language. GNAT surely has pragmas and attributes that are not in the Standard. The important point is that neither GNAT nor other implementations have other kinds of extensions. This fact is one of the many attractions of Ada. Art Evans Arthur Evans Jr, PhD Phone: 412-963-0839 Ada Consulting FAX: 412-963-0927 461 Fairview Road Pittsburgh PA 15238-1933 evans@evans.pgh.pa.us