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,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-12 05:53:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C bug of the day Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <82347202.0306101232.16776a81@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1055422374 4249 129.241.83.78 (12 Jun 2003 12:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:52:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39046 Date: 2003-06-12T12:52:54+00:00 List-Id: kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote: > If you try to claim that it is impossible to write an incorrect > program without overriding a default behavior, on the other hand... No, we do not claim that Ada catches logical errors. For some reason a lot of people think that when one say that Ada catches a lot of errors because the compiler can extract more information due to the language and thus catch a lot of the errors at compile-time in stead of at run-time, we mean that it catches *all* error both non-logical and logical. But to quote from a previous discussion: "... in Ada, you can never have a buffer overflow error. Unless of course you go very far out of your way to specifically program one [...] most Ada programmers would consider going out of your way to construct an Ada program that had a potential buffer overflow not as a challenge, but as a kind of pornography." - Robert I. Eachus -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/