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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<
Date: 1999/02/11
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In article <36C2F746.7A5A7FB@pwfl.com>,
  diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:

> There is, of course, no reason why Ada can't be used in most any other
> area where you would want a general purpose, full featured programming
> language. The added safety may not be critical, but it is a plus. (Who
> wants to have their GUI app crash because they ran an array index beyond
> the bounds & didn't catch the problem until the software is released?)

Actually there are lots of people out there who *love* it when that happens.
If you don't believe me, check out
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-351/

Of course if you don't *want* people cracking your system, you're better off
being save and using Ada. :-)


ps. If the link is broken, please tell me. We have recently been net-nannied,
and this site is on the verboten list, so I won't know.

T.E.D.

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