Re: glade starting points? [About ADA]

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang@ultim.net> wrote on 21/08/2000 (08:45) :
> 
> La plume légère, à Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:34PM +1200, heure d'inpiration,
> Franck Martin écrivait en ces mots:
> > The problem: programmers don't like it, because you have to be a maniac to
> > program it (petty syntaxic details). But that's what is required when you
> > want to bomb Yougoslavia without too much collateral damage. 

You have to be a maniac to program Ada? This is just crap. You must be a
maniac programming in syntactical mess like perl for instance, but not
Ada. 

Ada is stricter when it comes to for instance types, but this is
extremely useful when you are programming a huge project. Of course you
have to be a bit more disciplined when you program, but you will end up
saving time. Why? Because a lot of your bugs are discovered by the
compiler, thus saving a lot of debugging.

Btw it is _not_ called ADA it is Ada.

> Does this mean civils were actually targetted then ?

I don't know who they targeted, but it has nothing to do with Ada
anyway.

> > [the first Ariane 5 blew up, because of ONE register overflow]
> 
> I don't see here where robustness is...

Because it isn't the correct picture. For more info read:
=>
http://itsuite.it.bton.ac.uk/coursework/cd232/SoftwareDevelopment/ariane5hyperrep.html

PS: Would you board a plane running Gnome? Didn't think so...

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