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: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Testing v compile time checks for errors References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <6F2Yc.848$8d1.621@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <2L-dnRmP6qOePaLcRVn-ug@megapath.net> In-Reply-To: <2L-dnRmP6qOePaLcRVn-ug@megapath.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <11O%c.10855$w%6.2029@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:07:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.171 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1094692029 63.184.105.171 (Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:07:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:07:09 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3519 Date: 2004-09-09T01:07:09+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > If I had a stronger need for correctness, I'd move to something like SPARK, > and do *all* of the checking at compile-time; I certainly wouldn't write > more tests. In the US, the National Cyber Security Partnership endorses SPARK as one of only 3 ways to obtain secure software. Guess what isn't acceptable. -- Jeff Carter "Alms for an ex-leper!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 75