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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:56:33 +0100
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On 18.02.11 12:34, richard wrote:

>> Make "+" a little more obscure (if possible) and have
>> a proponent of Ada look for the error...
>>
>> Or talk about the possibility (or not) of changing the
>> definition of Integer temporarily to a debugging version
>> of Integer whose operations we can trace.
> We do not use predefined type integer in production code.  If you
> define your own constrained integer type, this is not likely to be a
> problem.

I take that as an example of why neither C++ nor Ada can be used
without additional rules made to prevent dangerous situations
from occurring.  However, the rules might differ, in quantity and
in quality.

To me, a more interesting question concerns less hypostatized
circumstances: Given real world programming capacity,
measurable in terms of cost, degree of success, etc.,
what are the effects, as measured in projects using either
language, of:

- given rule set
- programmer education
- language facilities
- actual/idiomatic/dominant use?