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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
Date: 12 Jun 2003 11:40:36 -0700
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Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message news:<bc98sp$gaqa0$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>...
> Kevin Cline wrote:
> 
> >Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message 
>  news:<bc4n70$fei5u$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>...
> >> kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote:
> >> 
> >> >  I'd rather have a language
> >> >in which all of the defaults were fundamentally safe, but with the
> >> >freedom to override them if you had special constraints, or even in
> >> >cases where you came across a case which the language authors hadn't
> >> >considered.  I don't know such a language, however; it may exist
> >> >somewhere, but if it does, it certainly isn't very popular or wide
> >> >spread.
> >> 
> >> And that's been posted to comp.lang.ada? ;-)
> >
> >Sorry, Ada doesn't solve this problem.
> 
> In what respect? The primary question was about safety, not some kind
> of hyper-versatility. And the safety problem cannot be solved with C++
> and an STL.

Yes, it seems like the objection is that Ada doesn't "solve this
problem" because at some point a programmer will actually have to
write code, and that code may have bugs.  True, but nothing to do with
"all of the defaults were fundamentally safe."

Mike