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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:29:12 +0000, Paul E. Bennett  
<peb@amleth.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> Which is why other means are needed for quality software. Rigorous  
>> testing
>> and code reviews come to mind.
> Something that some people here seem not able to accept because they
> believe in the absolute protectiveness of their compiler.
> --


That's just plain silly - or biased.  I would guess that an overwhelming  
number of Ada advocates also advocate testing, code reviews etc (eg I  
wrote AUnit).  The compiler is not a replacement for these processes, but  
a better compiler is certainly an aid in the effort.

- Ed