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From: Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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On Sun, 11 May 2003 18:52:05 GMT, Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote:
> Wesley Groleau wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't know where this notion arose that a "super-strong"
>>> type system is just for preventing bugs. I know that in C++
>> 
>> 
>> I didn't say that it was only for preventing bugs.
>> I said it's a crock that it requires programmers
>> to do a lot of allegedly unnecessary workarounds.
>> 
>> For me, preventing bugs is the second biggest benefit
>> of Ada's type system.  The bigger one is that it
>> allows you to define things in terms of your
>> abstraction instead of your implementation.
> 
> I think my first deep insight into the implications of Ada programming 
> came in 1983, just after Ada 83 became an ANSI standard.  I told someone 
> working on our (Ada) compiler: "No, in Ada you model the problem space, 
> not the solution space."  I then excused myself for a minute to write it 
> on my office whiteboard.

That's nice, but I can model an eigenvalue problem space just fine.

Doesn't do squat to finding a numerically stable algorithmic solver.