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: a07f3367d7,5add429c86f59001 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nerim.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada vs Eiffel - Ada programmer approach Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:56:07 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <405b5054-4c8f-4e16-9ea8-503a9b9f976e@t21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <4A19765C.608@obry.net> <8105b65f-4de9-4653-b43a-d55ee33f072d@k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <4vCdnRo6At8-mIHXnZ2dnUVZ8n2dnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1244099982 16600 195.25.228.57 (4 Jun 2009 07:19:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:19:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6224 Date: 2009-06-04T11:56:07+02:00 List-Id: Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) a �crit : > On 26 mai, 17:07, Tim Rowe wrote: >> I still think it's a brilliant idea, but suffers from *Design* by >> Contract getting confused with *Programming* by Contract; not least >> because "Design by Contract" is a trademark, > > Clearly an abuse. I will never understand how it is allowed to make a > common expression a trade mark. If GNAT is a trade mark, it is Ok, if > Pepsi is a trade mark, it is Ok, but saying the expression "this > common noun" or "doing a common-verb" is a trade mark... pffff.... > > I even heard to say that "Happy Birthday" is a trade mark of some one. > I believe that "free" is a trade-mark of Coca-Cola... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr