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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
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Date: 2012-06-08T17:40:58-07:00
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On Friday, June 8, 2012 2:35:55 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> > 3. How about the quality and availablity of supporting tools like
> > debuggers and profilers?
>=20
> One nice thing about Ada is not needing to use a debugger.

I don't get this comment.  Ada is a lot nicer than some languages at preven=
ting you from making certain kinds of mistakes, but no language is able to =
prevent logic errors and certain dumb typos.  And if you make this kind of =
error and the program doesn't work, just the fact of its being written in A=
da doesn't help you much.  There may less need for a debugger because Ada w=
ill prevent certain types of errors and things like constraint checks will =
catch some others that would cause havoc in C.  But it can't catch everythi=
ng, and even if it does find an index that's out of range it won't tell you=
 why the index was out of range.  I mean, Ada is a much better language tha=
n certain others for writing correct code, but this seems like a gross over=
statement.

Or maybe I'm just being parochial here because I designed and wrote the Ada=
 debugger that comes with Irvine Compiler's product.  And yes, I do use it =
to help track down problems.  (Including errors in the debugger itself.)

                         -- Adam