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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: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:06:01 +0000
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
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- Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >
- > This is false. There are compilers which offer range checking. In a situation
- > where safety-critical software is designed, such a compiler should be used.
-
- I thought you were arguing the merits of two languages. Does the C _language_
- standard define the syntax and sematics of built-in range checking? Or does
- "language" in your lexicon include a particular C compiler, with all the add-on
- tools that one could buy to get it to behave closer to a _standard_ Ada
- implementation? This is the classic non-argument with regard to languages - that
- a language can be "fixed up" with enough non-standard tools to do what another
- language has standardized. It's probably true, but it's not a fair _language_
- comparison.
-
- > I bet I could get a Fortran programmer to write Ada code that looks like Ada
- > but is really Fortran in disguise. :)
-
- Except - it would not have the aliasing errors of FORTRAN common blocks,
- for example.
-
- This is the opposite non-argument - that programmers might not use features in
- a language. To that, add the non-argument that an (unvalidated)
- Ada compiler may not provide all the features of the language.
-
- Why should the title of this thread refer to three language standards
- (one in draft form), if the topic isn't about the _language_?
-