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Subject: Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?
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On Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 9:23:47 AM UTC-6, robin...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, December 5, 1992 at 7:18:16 AM UTC+11, srhe...@happy.colorado.edu wrote:
> > 
> > HOWEVER, please read "A dynamic Vector is harder than it looks" from the June
> > 1992 is issue of JOOP (Journal of Object Oriented Programming) - vol 5 no 4. 
> > *THIS ARTICLE IS SCARY*  Basically Tom Cargill pointed out a bug that nearly
> > all C++ textbooks have made when they implement a dynamically sized array. 
> > This includes the textbook written by the implementor of the AT&T Cfront
> > compiler (will I get in trouble if I mention his name?).  If the language is so
> > convoluted that even the experts (including the compiler writers) cannot get
> > their simple textbook examples correct, then I conclude there is something
> > drastically wrong with the language.

For those interested, the sited paper can be read here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PHUleua3FpIYRrumkboxBCLhMjc_mkxj