Re: memory leakages with Ada?

[DPH <rally2xs@compuserve.com>]

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:51:05 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol
<randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:56:41 -0500, DPH wrote:
>> 
>> this goes back to a post I made last month.  I'm just wondering if Ada
>> is all that much less error prone when you start comparing it with C++
>> development environments in the wildly popular platforms of Windows
>> and Linux, but especially windows.  There are just scads of tools to
>> do about everything (except reliably find the memory leaks of C++,
>> although there may be - and I just haven't run across it yet) and
>> those tools are generally cheaper due to economy of scale.  
>
>Ask yourself: Why do so many tools exist for C++?

'Cuz tthey're necessary.

'Cuz there's such a huge user base that they could make money on them
even if they weren't necessary - they would still be convenient and
therefore saleable.

The question is - do they compensate enough for C++'s inherent
tendancy to fool programmers into doing something ugly, coupled with
the hoarde of people that know the language, to make them viable
competiton for Ada in some limited programming environments like
Windows and Unix/Linux?  Can you get an equally reliable program from
an experienced C++ prgrammer with sophisticated tools that you get
from an experienced Ada programmer for which the same tools don't
exist?

Dave Head