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- From: "James E. Fuller" <jef@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 01:29:52 -0700
- Organization: Fuller & Stone
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- Ken Garlington wrote:
- >
- > > 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?
- >
- > 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?
- Because there are one helluva lot of people writing C(++) code.
-
- > What is driving this market?
- Profit potential.
-
- Everybody wants a quick fix, a magic wand that makes their code
- right. If you're gonna sell tools to do that, you probably will
- want to target the language that darn near everybody uses, huh?
-
- Jim Fuller
-