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- From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:10:38 +0000
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
- Message-ID: <313C758E.18B2@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- > If C is so prone to errors, why isn't the same program plagued by runaway
- > pointers, heap corruption and other nasties? After all, we C idiots can't write
- > ten lines of code without introducing such problems, right?
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- Counter-example - if C code isn't so prone to the types of errors Ada is designed
- to catch, then why are there so many add-on tools available to try to find these
- errors in C code? What is driving this market?
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