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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:27:49 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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On 2/7/2011 11:24 AM, Robert A Duff wrote:
> Hyman Rosen<hyrosen@mail.com>  writes:
>
>> ...And is Ada any
>> more immune than C to little Bobby Tables? (<http://xkcd.com/327/>)
>
> Well, yeah, somewhat.  As I mentioned in another thread:
>
> http://www.adacore.com/2010/03/22/gem-82/
> http://www.adacore.com/2010/04/05/gem-83/
>
> The second "gem" contains a reference to that very
> same xkcd comic you mention above (which I found
> highly amusing!).
>
> Similar things could be done in C, but it's it's rather
> more trouble.

It's somewhat ironic given this discussion that we've recently
seen the GNATColl error which caused incorrect string values to
be inserted into the database! It should serve as a caution to
those who seamlessly transition from "Ada is immune to entire
classes of errors prevalent in C++" to "Ada is immune to errors".

(And yes, I know that when baldly presented this way, everyone
will deny that they have ever said or thought the latter, but it
is the attitude that often comes through.)