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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:18:17 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> I think this is a perfect example of the blind spot of Ada programmers.
> You are so enamored of enumerations and perfectly indexed arrays and
> lack of buffer overflows that you will probably miss the most likely
> and subtle bug of this kind of code, which is that the Shuffle routine
> fails to produce each possible permutation with uniform probability!

Well while you are busy finding the former bugs in your software we have
time to work on the latter.

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/