From: jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com (John Goodsen)
Subject: Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks
Date: 07 Sep 1994 22:46:48 GMT
Date: 1994-09-07T22:46:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JGOODSEN.94Sep7184648@trinidad.radsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: davidk@mcil.comm.mot.com's message of Sun, 4 Sep 1994 09:27:29 GMT
In article <1994Sep4.092729.21408@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> davidk@mcil.comm.mot.com (David Kramer) writes:
To add to Norman Cohen's list of reasons why an Ada compiler is more
effective than lint:
It is much too easy to get around type mismatches in C - as any
unscrupulous C programmer knows - all you have to do is use a cast!
(eg. (Apples)oranges = apples). The lints that I have used had no
problems with this - in fact in one project I worked on we were instructed
to use lint and to have no warnings. The way our 'project leader' 'fixed'
type mismatch problems was by casting it away!
This isn't much easier than doing unchecked conversions in Ada. You identified
a project management/process problem, not really a technological advantage
of one language over another...
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1994-09-06 13:46 ` Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks david.c.willett
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1994-09-08 7:04 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-08 9:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-08 17:12 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-08 17:28 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-22 8:51 ` Brendan WALKER
1994-09-07 22:44 ` John Goodsen
1994-09-08 6:32 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
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1994-09-07 22:46 ` John Goodsen [this message]
1994-09-08 6:47 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-09-08 8:52 ` David Emery
1994-09-11 3:41 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-09-11 12:20 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 13:29 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-12 14:03 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-11 21:48 ` Erik Naggum
1994-09-11 23:47 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-12 6:28 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-12 12:22 ` David Weller
1994-09-12 20:03 ` Erik Naggum
1994-09-12 19:16 ` Maarten Landzaat
1994-09-13 10:10 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-17 12:07 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-12 20:49 ` Mitch Gart
1994-10-13 10:51 Bob Wells #402
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