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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure (Was: Size code Ada and C)
Date: 1998/07/10
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"You can always disable range checking in Ada, but was this the idea of
Ada ???"


The idea in Ada is that it gives you _more_ freedom than C. You have the 
freedom to check or not to check. The only option you have with C is to
accept array index overflows, and try and find them in the debugger.


Dale