From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,899fc98b2883af4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-19 00:36:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!uninett.no!dax.net!juliett.dax.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305091549.48b9c5d9@posting.google.com> <7507f79d.0305121629.5b8b7369@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305130543.60381450@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305140549.3a87281b@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305141747.5680c577@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305160425.3bb89749@posting.google.com> <1053091306.979352@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: <7vaddj8k3d.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:35:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.12.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 1053329737 193.216.12.150 (Mon, 19 May 2003 09:35:37 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:35:37 MET DST Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:64148 comp.object:63675 comp.lang.ada:37498 misc.misc:14283 comp.software-eng:19288 Date: 2003-05-19T07:35:37+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > Marc A. Criley wrote: > > Given the effort it saves, why not code in Ada? > > Yep. C++ also gives you some of the same advantages. > For example, iteration over containers looks like > for (i = c.begin(); i != c.end(); ++i) > so you get the same lack of overruns. But Ada has a > lot more of this type of stuff. > Yes, provided you get your termination condition of the loop right. The C for loop is much more like the Ada loop ... exit when ... end loop construct. -- Ole-Hj. Kristensen ****************************************************************************** * You cannot consistently believe this sentence. ******************************************************************************