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- From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 17:12:57 GMT
- Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <3146E324.5C1E@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i98gg$8n1@solutions.solon.com> <Do9tMv.2p3@world.std.com> <4ia41k$e04@solutions.solon.com>
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- In article <4ia41k$e04@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com
- (Peter Seebach) writes:
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- |> My general strategy is to just rebuild everything after any significant
- |> change. CPU time is cheap during the build process. I have more processor
- |> time than hair.
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- Ada would reject this comparison as a type mismatch. C apparently
- silently promotes both processor time and hair to unsigned long.
-
- ;-)
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- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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