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- From: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 18 Mar 1996 21:22:31 GMT
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
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- Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- > Most of the C problems lie, arguably, with the inadequate coverage by the
- > standard of certain issues, not with the syntax and semantics of the language
- > per se.
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- To plagiarize somebody elses aphorism,
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- This is like saying that the guillotine has nothing to do with the French
- Revolution.
-
- What? Were they giant Jacobin-bacchanalia-sized brie slicers? ;-)
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- > The standard doesn't require compilers to implement range checking.
- Hence we > have compilers without range checking. And so forth.
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- We don't have compilers with range checking and all those other checking
- things because the core concepts of the C langauge makes such an
- implementation harder, slower and less idiomatic and useful and thus MORE
- EXPENSIVE than a checking Eiffel or Ada implementation.
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- > --
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