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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.jgaa.com!news.hacking.dk!pnx.dk!munin.nbi.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image Date: 25 Jun 2004 02:20:31 +0200 Organization: Munin Sender: sparre@sparre.crs4.it Message-ID: References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.48 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1088122832 657 80.241.165.48 (25 Jun 2004 00:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@munin.nbi.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:20:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1871 Date: 2004-06-25T02:20:31+02:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > > (Or is someone suggesting that all Ada checks should be left in > > when developing an OS?) > > [...] Only in those (very few) places where speed is critical should > they be omitted. Are you suggesting that you would prefer a buggy/insecure operating system to a secure but slower one? I don't think so, but isn't that what you wrote? Greetings, Jacob -- "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman