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: 103376,3a3dffa82925efee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!darth-vader.mobilixnet.dk!newsfeed.orangenet.dk!news.hacking.dk!pnx.dk!munin.nbi.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantages Date: 28 Jun 2004 16:44:42 +0200 Organization: Munin Sender: sparre@sparre.crs4.it Message-ID: References: <20040628005515.0A1E74C4160@lovelace.ada-france.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparre.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1088433882 10397 156.148.70.170 (28 Jun 2004 14:44:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@munin.nbi.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:44:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1972 Date: 2004-06-28T16:44:42+02:00 List-Id: Andrew Carroll wrote: > Would it be safe to say then that Ada in general depends heavily on > the compiler to catch implementation mistakes? In a way. But it might give a somewhat incorrect impression. Even Ada programmers look at what they write and test their programs once they compile. I would rather say that with Ada, the compiler works as an extra filter for catching implementation mistakes. Jacob -- "I'm going as a barrel of toxic waste!"