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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 06:36:44 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4hml8s$a1q@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4hakfl$ogd@fred.netinfo.com.au> <4hf701INNdl7@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4hm6lo$eln@fred.netinfo.com.au>
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- In article <4hm6lo$eln@fred.netinfo.com.au>,
- Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
- >>How do you know that? Most of the kinds of things you describe (e.g. range
- >>checking) can be handled by a specialized compiler.
-
- >Correct. But then would it be standard C anymore?
-
- Certainly. A C implementation is free to be an interpreter that emulates
- every bit of every value and checks for arbitrary programming errors.
-
- There is no restriction that an implementation may not offer range checking,
- and many already do have stricter type checking than the standard requires.
-
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