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Assumptions are bad (Score:1)
To start with, Ada indexes arrays starting with 1. Yes, I know that is ugly and weird (*cough* FORTRAN *cough*), but that is most certainly not an off-by-one error.
Next, neither your p6 code or the java code addresses the line:
Granted there are some missing values here, specifically LogFileCountT and MaxNumberLogFiles. But these two help to define a range of acceptable indices for the LogFileNamesT array type.
Now to the really bad as
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And what people miss is that while this sort of safety is a must when lives are on the line, it is prohibitively costly to achieve in, say, one-liners.
But programmers like to view the world in black&white.
Hey Look, Withering Irony! (Score:1)
Are you saying non-programmers don't?
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Heh. I found myself wishing I could upvote this.
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What I am saying is some disciplines seem to invite dogmatism and simplisticism more than others.
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