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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a83c46b54bacb7f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Date: 2000/02/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 580742705 Sender: ohk@gong1.clustra.com References: <3894A823.92EC75D1@bondtechnologies.com> <874b7r$mj9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38967537_1@news.jps.net> <2000Feb1.153921.1@eisner> X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.no X-Trace: news.telia.no 949488198 195.204.160.194 (Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:43:18 CET) Organization: Telia Internet Public Access NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:43:18 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > > And some small fraction of automobile collision victims who are not wearing > > safety belts are "thrown clear". Exceptional cases do get more press. > > I am clearly in need of enlightenment, so please explain to me. After > you have decided that a given situation is impossible, will you > nevertheless add an error handler for that impossible situation, so > that if it happens anyway, you can recover gracefully? To what level > of detail and impossibility will you go? When you write Ada code, how > many exception handlers for Program Error do you put into your code? Or as my father used to say: "It's no use protecting a (electrical) fuse with another fuse" -- E pluribus Unix