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Subject: Re: meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" Ada on StackOverflow
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On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 11:38:53 PM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
> John Perry <john.perry@usm.edu> writes:
> > I'm curious: did my implementation circumvent safety features?
> 
> Were there any unchecked array accesses or anything like that?  If not,
> that's a big help.

No arrays at all; it's just linked lists. It's dangerous inasmuch as pointers are dangerous, but I know from experience that Ada has certain rules to prevent pointer dangling.