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From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Advantages of ADA
Date: 1997/04/09
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.970407113750.26070F-100000@esus.cs.montana.edu>, 
softichj@cs.montana.edu says...
>
>I was wondering if everyone could pitch in and help me write a paper for
>my CS class.  I'm doing a paper on the advantages and disadvanteges of
>ADA, I know many of the disadvantages and was wondering if you could give
>me some input on the advantages.
>
>Thanks

Pick up a copy of Dr. Dobb's magazine.  Look for the advertisement for PC
lint by Gimpel Software.  You will find a small piece of 'C' code that 
is typically less than 10 lines long that has a hidden bug.  These bugs
are typically very subtle and related to the subtle nature of the language.

These kinds of bugs are practically non-existant in Ada.  So... you won't
find yourself puzzling for hours over 10 lines of code.

They're lots of other advantages of Ada, but this is a pretty good simple 
example.

I hope this helps,

Steve Doiel

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