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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ? Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:56:45 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <584564c2-9f64-4965-b045-535cdaf899c0@googlegroups.com> <7cb22c58-3009-47f0-8fe7-62f3cd61785d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wZ92b1Jf6WKcedzDuqoRAA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: fr Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53266 Date: 2018-06-23T06:56:45+01:00 List-Id: Le 22/06/2018 à 18:10, Simon Clubley a écrit : > 3.10.2 (according to Randy) > > Personally, I don't think it's something to be proud of however. > > When a language is used in the critical environments that Ada is used in, > it shouldn't have anything in it which is that difficult to understand. Well, it is an attempt at making pointers safer, and this is inherently difficult. Other languages didn't even try... -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr