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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/14
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In article <38566835.B4A2D48@rdel.co.uk>, Chris Powell <chris.powell@rrds.co.uk> writes:

> Equal care is required in Ada, but possibly for different reasons. If
> types are defined incorrectly the resultant code ends up worse than if
> no types were used. Although explicit type conversions are required
> which should alert the programmer to a potential violation of the
> intended design, often there end up being so many conversions everywhere
> that the programmer no longer gives them a second thought.

If conversions get that numerous, it is a sign of bad design.
One can code Fortran in any language.  Coding C in Ada is much
worse than coding C in C.

Larry Kilgallen