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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 23:51:42 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <313B44AE.4134@mtm.syr.ge.com> <4hg92vINNnat@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <313C758E.18B2@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- In article <313C758E.18B2@lfwc.lockheed.com>,
- Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> 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? What is driving this market?
-
- The immense popularity of C?
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