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: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/03/18 Message-ID: <4ikk6n$coi@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143132013 references: <4hl082INNc7d@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4ictukINN7j1@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote: > Most of the C problems lie, arguably, with the inadequate coverage by the > standard of certain issues, not with the syntax and semantics of the language > per se. To plagiarize somebody elses aphorism, This is like saying that the guillotine has nothing to do with the French Revolution. What? Were they giant Jacobin-bacchanalia-sized brie slicers? ;-) > The standard doesn't require compilers to implement range checking. Hence we > have compilers without range checking. And so forth. We don't have compilers with range checking and all those other checking things because the core concepts of the C langauge makes such an implementation harder, slower and less idiomatic and useful and thus MORE EXPENSIVE than a checking Eiffel or Ada implementation. > --