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- From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 17:40:04 GMT
- Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
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- References: <31457491.244A@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i4nuj$f0i@saba.info.ucla.edu> <TANMOY.96Mar12181023@qcd.lanl.gov>
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- In article <TANMOY.96Mar12181023@qcd.lanl.gov> tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya) writes:
- >In article <4i4nuj$f0i@saba.info.ucla.edu>
- >jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:
- ><snip>
- >JM: This whole "checks" issue is just ignorance. Has their ever been a
- >JM: mature production quality optimizing compiler for ANY imperative
- >JM: language that did not have an option for check suppression?
- >JM:
- >And has there ever been a widely used language in which extensions
- >were disallowed? :-)
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- Ada allows extensions, it's just that extension are limited to:
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- 1) pragmas
- 2) attributes
- 3) libarary packages.
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- and that's it.
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- Mark Biggar
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