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From: Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:00:33 -0500
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Date: 2005-03-22T00:00:33-05:00
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Possibly.   However, I have seen more than enough "hacked" Ada to wonder
> whether, in the hands of the larger community, the unruly would still run amuck,
> even with Ada as their language.   Although the default for most constructs in

I don't know how much effort I've put into persuading colleagues
that an Ada access type and a C pointer are NOT always interchangeable.

Or how many times they turned a deaf ear to my recommendation to
think about a warning (that the source and target of an
unchecked_conversion instantiation were not the same size).

-- 
Wes Groleau

He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.
                                     -- Benjamin Franklin