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From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: Re: Discriminated record question
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:03:33 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: 2002-05-16T07:03:33+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1021525562.25079.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)

From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
> This is a case of the compiler being "correct but irritating". This is
> related to compilers that are "correct but useless". In the latter case,
> saying "Thank you. Your compiler is correct, but is unsuitable for our
> needs. We are therefore evaluating other compilers for our project."
> generally gets the vendor to sing a different tune. If you can honestly
> say this to your vendor you may suddenly find yourself possessed of an
> update that raises Storage_Error. But since this is only irritating, not
> useless, it may not be worth the effort.

I very much like the Rational Apex system, but sometimes Rational people have the 
attitude of saying: "We know how to do it correctly, you blockhead..."



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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-16  5:03 Grein, Christoph [this message]
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2002-05-07 12:45 Discriminated record question Grein, Christoph
2002-05-07 19:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-09  2:52   ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-09 20:29     ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-08 10:10 ` Mark Doherty
2002-05-09  2:56   ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-15 15:34     ` Mark Doherty
2002-05-15 18:12       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-07 12:17 Mark Doherty
2002-05-10  9:27 ` Emmanuel Briot
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