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- From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 08:36:46 GMT
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- >> 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?
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- I've never written an Ada program that had a runaway pointer in it in 13 years, and
- Ghu knows how many 10s of thousands of SLOCs.
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- My point is not
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- "You C idiots can't write ten lines of code without introducing such problems"
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- but
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- "You C geniusses can't write tens of thousands lines of code without introducing such
- problems."
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- Whereas us idiots using Ada can.
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