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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny08.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <422b6c80.1141685927@news.xs4all.nl> <1110151210.176045.168760@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera M2(BETA1)/8.00 (Linux, build 913) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 04:10:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.19.208.151 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny08 1110168655 70.19.208.151 (Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:10:55 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:10:55 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8793 Date: 2005-03-07T04:10:55+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:42:00 +0000, Paul E. Bennett wrote: > At least code which passes such a hurdle is in a more reasonable state > than > code which has not passed this threshold. I would also hope that you are > not waiting for all the code to pass this hurdle but are compiling, > reviewing and testing on a fairly continuous basis, submitting the code > that passes compile, review and unit testing into the stock for > integration > and system testing. My company has a regression suite of over 8000 tests that is run every night on our software on a dozen-plus host/target combinations. And the software is 90% or better Ada. Language is only part of the game of quality, but one that can have many good or bad effects. - Ed