From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc52c633190162e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed-0.progon.net!progon.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-Id: <2633437.nkPcgZykHI@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: why learn C? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:41:22 +0200 References: <1172144043.746296.44680@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1172161751.573558.24140@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <546qkhF1tr7dtU1@mid.individual.net> <5ZULh.48$YL5.40@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net> <1175215906.645110.217810@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <460D61F3.7080701@obry.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.73.230.248 (84.73.230.248) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:45:03 +0200 X-Trace: 3003f460f9b3ff1ec435d25605 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14706 Date: 2007-04-01T13:41:22+02:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > kevin cline a �crit : > >> No, what actually happened is that expert C++ developers learned to >> use C++ in such a way that those errors can not happen. While it is >> possible to write unsafe code in C++, it is also possible to adopt >> coding guidelines that makes it easy to find and eliminate unsafe >> code, and for most applications, that's quite good enough. One reason > > Sorry but you must live in another planet :) All the C++ code I've seen > are so full of bugs that I'm not inclined to buy that! Ok it *may* be > possible but how many C++ programmers are *good* enough and *wise* > enough to achieve that ? That's the real question to me, and from where > I stand this is close to 0% ! I am more optimistic - I put it at 1% ;-). Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com