Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)

Article View: comp.lang.modula2

Article #2630

#2630

From: W. Wesley Groleau
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:33

15 lines
1608 bytes

>|> >	Finally, it is absurd to make elaborate security checks on debugging 
>|> >	runs, when no trust is put in the results, and then remove them in 
>|> >	production runs, when an erroneous result could be expensive or 
>|> >	disasterous.  What would we think of a sailing enthusiast who wears 
>|> >	his life-jacket when training on dry land but takes it off as soon as 
>|> >	he goes to sea>
>|> >
>|> >From C, A, R, Hoare in "Hints on programming language design" in 

Isn't Hoare the same guy that said the worst thing to ever happen to our
profession was the interactive debugger because people no longer try to
get it right the first time?

Is he contradicting himself, or am I misunderstanding him.?
(Flame bait for both sides in a single question--how about that?)

Technical Details

Message-ID: <460ibq$b0j@reuters2.mitre.org>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mitre.org!usenet

References:

<44hcri$rsm@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <DFyAJF.KpC@research.att.com> <DG1yzI.8Ln@mv.mv.com> <45cj8d$red@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <DG8y40.BMz@world.std.com> <KANZE.95Oct11123925@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mitre.org!usenet
From: "W. Wesley Groleau" <wgroleau@lear.mitre.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
Date: 17 Oct 1995 15:33:14 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <460ibq$b0j@reuters2.mitre.org>
References: <44hcri$rsm@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <DFyAJF.KpC@research.att.com> <DG1yzI.8Ln@mv.mv.com> <45cj8d$red@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <DG8y40.BMz@world.std.com> <KANZE.95Oct11123925@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lear.mitre.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m)
X-URL: news:KANZE.95Oct11123925@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de

Reply to Parent Message