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Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 5:08:49 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>> From practical point of view any dynamic check is 
>> a lingering disaster, added complexity and, in general, a lie.
>> 
>> With dynamic checks you write code as if there were no branches in it, 
>> ignoring the fact that the code branches at all places where the check 
>> occurs.

Something that perform checks is, I think, just proper management if there
is awareness of risk.

> The mathematical proof of no-leak, no-incorrect-pointer-arithmetic
> pointer-correctness must be 100% static (at compile-time) to be useful.
> 

For some N% of Ada programs, will a computation  of a proof be predictably
finished in time? 

Static knowledge is a privilege not shared by many, or much, I suppose.