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!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!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 18:05:42 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <87mxw9x7no.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <16bz9kvbqa8y9$.155ntpwpwl29d.dlg@40tude.net> <4be97bea$0$2966$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: EFpv4lnpRyjbMhM0po550g.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:11499 Date: 2010-05-11T18:05:42+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 11 May 2010 17:46:58 +0200, Pascal Obry a =E9c= rit: > Le 11/05/2010 09:39, Dmitry A. Kazakov a =E9crit : >> I am not. Eiffel does it wrong. SPARK does it right. > > Eiffel and SPARK are completely different beasts, I do not see how you= > can compare them. > Can be compared in their attempt to make proofs or to draw a path to it.= = But Eiffel's concepts are mostly a kind of debugging or runtime exceptio= n = oriented, and you are right if you were to point that Eiffel is not to d= o = static inference. While they can be compared in some way, there is indeed a big difference= : = Eiffel is runtime oriented, SPARK is static analysis oriented. -- = pragma Asset ? Is that true ? Waaww... great