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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news100.image.dk!news000.worldonline.dk.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter Koch Larsen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:09:07 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.79.147.244 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@wol.dk X-Trace: news000.worldonline.dk 1110150545 62.79.147.244 (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:09:05 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:09:05 MET Organization: Customer of Tiscali A/S Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8778 comp.lang.c++:44396 comp.realtime:1037 comp.software-eng:4569 Date: 2005-03-07T00:09:07+01:00 List-Id: "Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)" skrev i en meddelelse news:422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl... > >My conclusion is that there are some nice ideas out there, but that they >>mainly protect against the "sloppy" programmer. > > You are absolutely right. > > The point that you are probably missing is that *everyone* is a sloppy > programmer every once in a while. The frequency of this sloppiness of > course varies, but it is never zero. So every sloppy mistake caught by > the compiler is a good thing. > > > Wouter van Ooijen > > -- ------------------------------------ > http://www.voti.nl > Webshop for PICs and other electronics > http://www.voti.nl/hvu > Teacher electronics and informatics Which is why other means are needed for quality software. Rigorous testing and code reviews come to mind. /Peter