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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:04:51 +0100
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:10:59 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> No one is asking you to abandon Ada for C, but as I said,
> there are absolutely enormous amounts of correctly working
> C code in existence, and you need to respect the language
> and its practitioners enough to recognize that.

I wrote/reviewed more code in C/C++ than in Ada, you are fooling yourself.

> You might also ask yourself why, if Ada is so good, is it so
> little used?

Because code quality has negative value. Anybody delivering quality code
(no matter in which language) will suffer economically.

The reason for this was already discussed by us. The expenses and risks are
not covered by the price of software.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de