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From: "Harald Korneliussen" <vintermann@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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To ensure that minimal safety guidelines are in fact followed in C++,
and not just stand there on some piece of paper, you need a
programmable static analyzer a la Coverity, Klocwork, etc. The
template system can be (ab)used to do static checking for you in some
cases (you mention units), but not all - you can't ensure that the
elaborately constructed safe functions are actually used, for
instance.

But if you already need a programmable static analyzer, couldn't you
use it to get the checks through that instead of templates?

I dare say you don't need a big static analyzer of that kind to make
type safe Ada.

(concering "power", the C preprosessor is also turing-complete, which
means that there probably is a way to use that for type safe units as
well.)