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From: richard <catbird.island@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:26:11 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 18, 3:56=A0am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On18.02.11 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. =A0If 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. =A0However, 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?
Your reply does not correspond to the statement in my post.