Re: What I miss... (really C, Ada, religion)

[brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III)]

Could we please keep this discussion in net.ada, net.politics or net.religion.

I subscribed to net.ada for a month a year ago in apology to a ADA nut
for posting the statement "ADA sucks" to the net.  There were a total of two
articles on net.ada that month, which is proof enough that ADA is a language
that is devoid if serious use.  The only people who like it are those who can't
manage to write correct programs and need a crutch like subscript checking even
in a production version of a code.

If you program has a proof of correctness, and it checks its input data
properly, it does not need range checks on subscripts.  Such checking only
slows the computer down.  I don't have spare cycles for such a wast of time.
REAL programmers don't need subscript checking, they write lint free code
automatically.  Please leave your ADA hype on net.ada where no one is bothering
to read it!