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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, janis187 at us dot ibm dot com, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:55:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
References: <485A66B5.9030406@google.com> <485A68D0.4000600@redhat.com> <18523.56737.603403.557881@fleche.redhat.com> <1213887972.6932.7.camel@janis-laptop> <485A7715.8@redhat.com> <486315BF.2000402@codesourcery.com>

On 6/26/08 12:06 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

I am a huge fan of testing, but I do think that right now we're running too much testing for not enough return. It's not that the testing is bad, or that more testing doesn't prevent bugs; it's that the marginal cost of bug-prevention from the Java testing seems too high to me, given that after-the-fact auto-testing can delivery much of the same value.

Agreed.

Diego.

References:
- Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Diego Novillo
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Janis Johnson
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Mark Mitchell

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