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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/08 Message-ID: <36BECC3E.E5D1723F@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441863690 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <77ledn$eu7$1@remarQ.com> <77pnqc$cgi$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <8p64spq5lo5.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> <77t3ld$nou$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79chc7$ko6@drn.newsguy.com> <36BAF083.6C413B3D@acenet.com.au> <79evj0$49g@drn.newsguy.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nswpull.telstra.net 918473919 203.35.118.1 (Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:38:39 EST) Organization: Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:38:39 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: mike wrote: > > In article <36BAF083.6C413B3D@acenet.com.au>, Geoff says... > > > > > > >mike wrote: > > > >> C++ now, after becoming a standard, and with the standard library is a > >> very safe language. > > > > >Then there's the write off the end of the array trick ... > > > > again, using C++ standard library, it provides you with data structures > ready to use so you dont have to build your own eveytime and make > begineer errors. so use those. > > anyone nowadays still doing such silly errors as falling of the end > of an array because they dont use standard STL containers, do not deserve > to be programming in any language. Are you saying that when I want an array of objects that I should use an STL abstraction rather than the languages built in array type?? This is ridiculous!