Re: Ada speed vs. C...

[tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)]

In article <132920@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> grover@sun.UUCP (Vinod Grover) writes:
...
>They also mention in that brochure that for the Ada version checks were
>turned off. 
>
>Though, of course Mr Wolfe conveniently omits this piece of information.  If
>you turn off constraint checks, you are sacrificing the much-touted safety
>of Ada. In *this respect*, I do not see how you are different from
>programming in C or any other unsafe language.

Then you're ignoring all the compile-time benefits of Ada (a real type system,
separate specification/implemetation, etc.).  Just because certain run-time
checks were disabled does _not_ make Ada C.

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu