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From: Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:20:54 +0200
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Jerry Coffin wrote:

> Anybody who thinks that (for example):
> 
> unsigned char *a = reinterpret_cast<char *>(&x);

unsigned char *a = reinterpret_cast<unsigned char *>(&x);


I agree with most of the rest BTW. :-)


Also since Ada is more ancient than C++ in terms of a final standard, we 
can expect that some things are "more ancient", but it is still an 
interesting language since it can do low level stuff.


I am not sure it is "safer" than C++ too, I am suspicious of "safe" 
languages.



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Ioannis Vranos

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