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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada to C++ Translators
Date: 1998/02/19
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In article <34eb9e0d.45543971@news.tiac.net>, ichbiah@twsolutions.com (Jean D. Ichbiah) writes:

> Yes this is the C culture.  In five years of work with the Delphi
> compiler (and predecessors) I found one obscure bug in the RichEdit
> implementation for MT.
> 
> In two weeks with the MS Visual C++ 5.0, I had already stumbled over
> several major bugs, one of which required partial recoding.

I sense another variable here besides the programming language.

Has anyone done such an informal comparison for defects between
Delphi and MS Visual Basic ?

Larry Kilgallen