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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to get Ada to "cross the chasm"? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:35:50 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <878t9nemrl.fsf@nightsong.com> <87h8o7lowg.fsf@nightsong.com> <8736zqkwat.fsf@nightsong.com> <6839088c-f221-4650-a6ea-1841ae539486@googlegroups.com> <1e5f5681-0e2a-43cc-9437-2bd38078da08@googlegroups.com> <87604lvkqp.fsf@nightsong.com> <0bd80336-595a-45b6-b4e5-26c13d5859cb@googlegroups.com> <87o9idsh7f.fsf@nightsong.com> <87k1t1s9lx.fsf@nightsong.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51724 Date: 2018-04-26T10:35:50+02:00 List-Id: On 26/04/2018 01:02, Randy Brukardt wrote: > I personally think SPARK is the worst thing every to happen to Ada, because > it took the focus off of the great things that Ada 2012 itself can do for > you (without any verification) and onto something that only makes sense for > a niche. The worst thing is that Ada 2012 does not integrate SPARK into the language with an ability to prove only things the programmers wants to have proved instead of all-or-nothing approach. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de