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,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-19 14:02:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems Date: 19 Jan 2004 17:02:27 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <0F6Nb.1623$Tt.642@reader1.news.jippii.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pip1-5.std.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1074549747 23379 192.74.137.185 (19 Jan 2004 22:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:02:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4557 Date: 2004-01-19T17:02:27-05:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" writes: > Robert A Duff wrote: > > > That was simply a mistake in the wording of the Ada 80 manual. > > Not a property of "all useful programming languages". > > Ah, but the mistake required all valid Ada 80 compilers to solve the > halting problem. The solution was to remove that requirement. > > And that is my point, when specifying programming languages such issues > are a (maybe not common but occasional) occurance. Well said. - Bob