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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:13:18 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> DbC, however, has to do with designing components of the ship.
> You can have rescue clauses (exception handlers)
> in DbC.

To whom should Titanic have sent the exception? To the humpback whales?

> Exceptional situations is "unprogrammed" exceptional state,
> since this is what "exceptional" is about, if anything.

Any state is programmed. This includes the exceptional ones. When bug
happens, the program is in no state.

> And if a hammer  turns out to be made of wood,
> some contract is broken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallet

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