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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable 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!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!uvsq.fr!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:32:38 +0100 Organization: PVV Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1110479574 27550 212.85.156.195 (10 Mar 2005 18:32:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org To: Peter Koch Larsen Return-Path: In-reply-to: Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9053 Date: 2005-03-10T19:32:38+01:00 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. Preben