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,ea5071f634c2ea8b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.15.41 with SMTP id u9mr11890413pbc.3.1322237949708; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:19:09 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni17000pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generic-Package Elaboration Question / Possible GNAT Bug. Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:19:08 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <7bf9bc32-850a-40c6-9ae2-5254fe220533@f29g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <4295dc09-43de-4557-a095-fc108359f27f@y42g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <3snehoqgs8ia$.1nobjem6g6hx6$.dlg@40tude.net> <128rdz2581345$.c4td19l7qp9z$.dlg@40tude.net> <16ipwvpdavifr$.17bxf7if7f6kh$.dlg@40tude.net> <4ecb78b1$0$6643$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <1iofgbqznsviu$.phvidtvxlyj4$.dlg@40tude.net> <4ecbb96e$0$6581$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <743e83a1-c442-444b-a25a-da706e9cd0f9@g7g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> <011f483a-e0d7-4475-89e6-506802e88b9b@i6g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <1u91r9gjh5ep7.5o1zfpumqbfu$.dlg@40tude.net> <4ecfb823$0$6565$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: IQsgShqvlwBVRETOGaH4CQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.60 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19169 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2011-11-25T17:19:08+01:00 List-Id: Le Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:45:39 +0100, Georg Bauhaus = a =C3=A9crit: > "I thought that testing would be an increasingly ineffective way > of removing errors from [programs getting larger]. I did not realize > that the success of tests is that they test the programmer, > not the program. (...) > "My basic mistake was to set up proof in opposition to testing, > where in fact both of them are valuable and mutually supportive ways > of accumulating evidence of the correctness and serviceability > of programs." > -- Tony Hoare, I like this one too: > Formal methods for achieving correctness must supportthe intuitive = > judgment of programmers, not replace it. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: [Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univer= sity]