From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Dec 92 21:16:50 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!jldh@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jorge Luis Diaz-Herrera) Subject: Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing? Message-ID: <1992Dec7.161650.29381@sei.cmu.edu> List-Id: In article <1992Dec4.141816.1@happy.colorado.edu>, srheintze@happy.colorado.edu writes: |> |> HOWEVER, please read "A dynamic Vector is harder than it looks" from the Jun e |> 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. |> ... |> Thanks, |> Sieg I could not find this article! The June issue is volume 3 (not there) and vlume 4 is July/August (not there!!) jld-h --..--