Re: Gnat, tasking, Vista

[tmoran@acm.org]

>> This is a very common (and unfortunate) line of thinking: "I prefer bugs
>> that I know rather than (fewer) bugs that I don't know".
>
>Nothing unfortunate about it.  There are multiple paths to success, and
  A bug that is known and successfully worked-around isn't a bug, it's
a feature.  Probably not a nice feature, but not a nasty surprise waiting
to bite you.
  Personally, I usually don't enjoy time spent finding the bugs in
other people's (compilers or OSes etc) code.  I usually have little idea
where the problem might be and there's a lot of grunt work trying to
cut down to a small program that demonstrates the problem (see the
recent thread on "Ada obfuscation").  And when there is a simple
example, learning what to avoid may be its only payback, while those
responsible take months, or even years, to release a corrected version.
  My understanding is that the current Gnat is not a 3.15p with
improvements, but is rather a substantially new thing, with new,
unknown, bugs.  Is that a mis-understanding?