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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada?
Date: 1998/09/24
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Jeff Templon wrote:
>
> 2) you have to be more careful since with a big language, it is
>    easier to make a mistake in writing the program which turns out
>    to be valid syntax for some feature you didn't know about.

Well it is certainly a design point of Ada to avoid situations
in which small lexical errors cause major differences in the
meaning of a program, and I think it achieves this goal pretty
well. Certainly better than C

     for (i = 1; i < 10; i ++);
        a[i] = i;

or Fortran:

     Do 10 i = 1.6

the latter being the (in)famous bug at the heart of the urban
legend that the Venus probe died because of this bug :-)

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