ljknews,

Yes, it is virtually impossible to get a serious runtime error in an Ada
program.  For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUrqdUyEpI

rCs


> At 9:51 PM +0100 6/9/07, David Crocker wrote:
>
>   
>> If instead we pay people to perform the more skilled tasks of establishing
>> requirements and specifying the systems to meet them, and use computers to
>> generate programs that meet the specifications, then such things as freedom 
>> from
>> buffer overflow come free of charge. By "freedom" here, I don't mean the 
>> sort of
>> freedom that comes in "safe" languages such as Ada and Java - in which the
>> buffer overflow raises an exception, probably requiring a restart of the
>> subsystem
>>     
>
> In my experience with Ada 83, the potential for buffer overflow is detected
> at compile time.  When I get an unexpected runtime exception, it is almost
> always at the interface to another language.
>   

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