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- From: tore@lis.pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 21:11:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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- Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- : In article <313D4D00.875@ix.netcom.com>,
- : James E. Fuller <jef@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- : >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
-
- : Why don't they just get Ada then? If the Usenet lunatics are right, Ada
- : can do what you mean no matter what crap you write.
-
- No... In fact it is almost the opposite... No matter what crap you write,
- as long as it is crap, Ada as likely to point out that it is crap (and tell
- you why it is crap) and refuse to compile it :-).
-
- : It can even correct bit corruption in your dynamic RAM without help from
- : hardware! Wow, isn't that amazing?
-
- That would indeed be amazing. Unfortunately the only thing Ada might do
- for you is to discover that a value is out of range, if you are so lucky
- that the bit corruption is in a variable and not in the code.
-
- : Last I heard, Ada programmers can walk on water and raise the dead!
-
- Well, if the water is only a few millimeter deep, it might look like
- I'm walking on water... And if I wake a person that is asleep, it might
- look like I'm raising the dead (at least at some distance) :-). I guess
- that is the phenomena you have discovered... there are so much that are
- so simple with Ada :-)
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