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: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.illinois.net!attcg1!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 10 Mar 2005 21:00:47 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1110509971 2374 192.135.80.34 (11 Mar 2005 02:59:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9083 Date: 2005-03-10T21:00:47-06:00 List-Id: In article , Preben Randhol writes: > Peter Koch Larsen wrote on 05/03/2005 (16:35) : >> I sort of like this one as well - although raising an exception seems to be >> to forgiving. >> My conclusion is that there are some nice ideas out there, but that they >> mainly protect against the "sloppy" programmer. > > Only ignorant morons claim that they are infallible. Yes read it the way > I said it. > > "When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while > the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under > similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much > more interested in Ada!" -- Robert Dewar > > I would like to see you as a test object for a pacemaker, new airline > etc... written in C++ by and infallible programmer. ^ ^ ^ I don't normally like to draw attention to typographic errors people make, but somehow this seems relevant in a discussion of whether any programmer is infallible.