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: a07f3367d7,23c0de5a42cf667e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Yannick_Duch=EAne_=28Hibou57=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:06:44 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <87mxw9x7no.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <16bz9kvbqa8y9$.155ntpwpwl29d.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: HK74FprowBoHhCYVD5Tsvg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11485 Date: 2010-05-11T10:06:44+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 11 May 2010 09:39:34 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =E9crit: >> Yes, it happens I'm thinking about that trouble, as I'm waiting for l= ong >> for the Programing By Contract (tm) capabilities (I use to be an Eiff= el >> advocator for some times in the past). > > I am not. Eiffel does it wrong. SPARK does it right. At that time, I did not ever knew there was such a thing as SPARK (which= = is still to be really learned to me... planed for very soon). At least, = = Eiffel was able to get a larger audience than SPARK, as there is a great= er = amount of peoples who know Eiffel than of peoples who know SPARK. So = Eiffel still did something good in some way with its larger audience (if= = peoples who learned about Eiffel really goes further or not, did get = benefit of what they discovered with it or not, or just used it as a = fashion toy and did not learn anything of it, is an another story). -- = No-no, this isn't an oops ...or I hope (TM) - Don't blame me... I'm just= = not lucky