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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Path: cnn.nas.nasa.gov!eos!jim-ra
- From: jim-ra@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jim Stevenson's reader)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Message-ID: <1996Mar7.191844.27224@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <1996Feb22.005518.13396@leeweyr.sccsi.com> <4gvrffINNlqo@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <SPENCER.96Feb29102241@zorgon.ERA.COM> <4h5bptINN9oi@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4hakfl$ogd@fred.netinfo.com.au>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:18:44 GMT
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- Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au> writes:
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- >But in C you carry on, Fat, Dumb and Happy, over-writing God knows what. Bit
- >of a blow if the program's in control of a Nuclear powerplant. Or a
- >flight-control system. Could even be nasty if it's the Stock exchange, can
- >anyone say 'Instant Economic Depression'.
- >
- Sort of reminds me of the story I heard of how a switch{}
- statement that didn't have an appropriate break; command inside a case:
- therefore causing an loop at a certain much visited phone switching
- station in the mid '80's (?) that overloaded a certain long distance
- carrier's lines for a few hours ($$$)
- REMEMBER C GIVES YOU MUCH FREEDOM
- BUT WITH FREEDOM COMES RESPONSIBILITY
- >>If C is ``unsafe'', C++ is lethal.
- Huh? C++ tries to enforce var. typing more aggressively than C.
- Although I can understand how C++ can become more cofusing because of
- objects needing to use ssooo many pointers for inhertitance , etc
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