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!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!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 18:23:51 +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> <4be98123$0$27617$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:11503 Date: 2010-05-11T18:23:51+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 11 May 2010 18:09:14 +0200, Pascal Obry a =E9c= rit: > Le 11/05/2010 18:05, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57) a =E9crit : >> While they can be compared in some way, there is indeed a big differe= nce >> : Eiffel is runtime oriented, SPARK is static analysis oriented. > > Right, I've worked on both languages SPARK and Eiffel. If you like anecdotes, just note that Design by Contract, which is one = target of SPARK, is a registered trade-mark of Bertrand Meyer, the autho= r = of Eiffel as you know ;) (personal opinion : an occasion to say I feel = this kind of mark registration is an abuse) -- = pragma Asset ? Is that true ? Waaww... great