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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1092233689.719755@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2nutq5F4sdqqU1@uni-berlin.de> <5ksXc.22738$_H5.696424@news20.bellglobal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1093602629 6544 134.91.1.34 (27 Aug 2004 10:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:30:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3078 Date: 2004-08-27T10:30:29+00:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: : With dynamic languages (like Postscript for : example), you need to test everything to have any confidence : at all in the code. I had thought that even with dynamic languages you can show that a given algorithm is correct. When the language is welldefined. Can the following Postscript program fail? %! newpath 10 10 moveto 100 0 rlineto 0 100 rlineto 100 neg 0 rlineto closepath stroke showpage -- Georg