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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,23c0de5a42cf667e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:41:31 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <87mxw9x7no.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <16bz9kvbqa8y9$.155ntpwpwl29d.dlg@40tude.net> <4be97bea$0$2966$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <4be98123$0$27617$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Dn22F68J9CHYFQQlT81DGA"; logging-data="16915"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZzRqRF4g5fy+TO90dIc0U" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:eE6W+vw9EmH/uYitbjoK5nd/a0s= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11505 Date: 2010-05-11T18:41:31+02:00 List-Id: Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) a �crit : > Le Tue, 11 May 2010 18:09:14 +0200, Pascal Obry a �crit: > >> Le 11/05/2010 18:05, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) a �crit : >>> While they can be compared in some way, there is indeed a big difference >>> : Eiffel is runtime oriented, SPARK is static analysis oriented. >> >> Right, I've worked on both languages SPARK and Eiffel. > > If you like anecdotes, [...] > And another anecdote is that Eiffel was designed by Bertrand Meyer when he worked for the research center of EdF (french electricity company), where Pascal is currently working too... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr