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: 103376,80ba3207a644d932 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:30:43 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat, tasking, Vista References: <13pcv4e8914hq93@corp.supernews.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:30:43 -0600 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.202.183.17 X-Trace: sv3-pP2Xe3/8m8/Ar/UcZXapsKMOThXBPTfwasktuVKqtv9NgYHGuy3HSTw15h1ZzP1z+N4sOVMPmuHh5tj!Rgl+f1v3D7onFTogdzrwnw0p1chBBj0QtPK2N+4uT/+6MPkSj7e4/3BXhmyn2riGNJhnNFYDevvW!U0ewhHjzDZ3uDB+CcWP41U2nM1uiSQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19548 Date: 2008-01-22T22:30:43-06:00 List-Id: >> 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?