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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 12 Mar 2005 15:59:39 -0500
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Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> writes:

> And they havn't got 100% compliance - as the Ada compiler vendors have. And
> they can indedd claim that - Ada has the ACATS test - pass the test you are
> 100% compliant - fail the thest and (almost) no customer will consider your
> offer.

Now wait.  Let's be fair.  Sure, the ACATS test suite is a good thing.
But no test suite can ensure 100% compliance with the language
standard.  Ada compilers do have bugs that are not caught by the ACATS!

Having a standard compliance test suite is an advantage of ADa,
but it's not a 100% guarantee of anything.  (In fact, all Ada compiler
vendors I know of have huge regression test suites that go way beyond
ACATS.)

- Bob

P.S. Oops, I typed "ADa" above, instead of "Ada".  I think I'll leave
that typo in, just to taunt the zealots who think spelling the name of
the language correctly is important.  ;-)  Come on folks, do you think
being pedantic about ADA vs. Ada will win converts?  I think it adds to
the (mostly wrong) impression that Ada is all about rules and
regulations for no good reason.