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From: nma124@hotmail.com (steve_H)
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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<1039618741.173427@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>...
 
> I think it's a
> fallacy cherished by Ada programmers that C or C++ will
> just accept any garbage, and therefore code can just be
> churned out in those languages.

Oh but it does accept any garbage.

Are you say that C will not accept this code

-----------------------
main(){
long j=999999999;
short i;

i=j;
}
----------------

??

Ok, lets find out:

$ cat foo.c
main(){
long j=999999999;
short i;
i=j;
}

$ gcc foo.c -o foo
$ ./foo
 
it worked!! It compiled with no erros, and ran with no errors.

I wonder how the compiler managed to stuff 999,999,999 into a short
variable? special packing algorithm must be :)

If the above is not garbage, then what do you call it? Brilliancy?

And on top of them, people will actually choose C and C++ for numerical
computation instead of Ada.