From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Tests in a software release
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:11:13 -0600
Date: 2017-11-14T18:11:13-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oug0n1$h7m$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: oth5k4$eih$1@dont-email.me
"G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid> wrote in message
news:oth5k4$eih$1@dont-email.me...
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>> Checks can be removed only when statically proven not to fail.
>
> Programmers may remove checks whenever they think
> they should. No fancy proof is required(*).
Such programmers should be fired at the earliest opportunity. That turns Ada
into an inferior version of C.
Such removal probably would have no impact on performance (can even harm it
in some cases by preventing the removal of other checks), and just makes the
code much less safe.
Randy.
P.S. Can you tell this is a hot button issue for me; I'm answering a stupid
thread from almost a month ago!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-15 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-25 19:30 Tests in a software release Victor Porton
2017-10-26 7:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-27 18:06 ` G. B.
2017-10-27 18:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-28 6:53 ` G.B.
2017-10-28 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-30 20:44 ` G. B.
2017-10-30 20:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-31 7:17 ` G.B.
2017-10-31 8:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-03 7:24 ` G.B.
2017-11-03 8:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-03 12:49 ` Shark8
2017-11-04 10:15 ` G.B.
2017-11-15 0:11 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2017-11-15 17:57 ` G. B.
2017-11-15 20:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-17 15:36 ` Shark8
2017-11-15 22:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-16 21:44 ` G.B.
2017-11-17 0:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-17 15:45 ` Shark8
2017-11-18 1:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 0:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-15 21:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 16:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-15 16:59 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-15 20:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-15 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-16 5:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-16 23:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-16 17:02 ` Robert Eachus
2017-11-17 0:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-22 20:40 ` Robert Eachus
2017-11-14 23:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-26 8:09 ` Stefan.Lucks
2017-10-26 17:30 ` Simon Clubley
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