Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion

[Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

On Aug 13, 7:20 am, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> it immediately identified the value MC_CTL_LOCAL_C
> (and others) as not fitting into the Control_Type's
> valid range. In C++ a glaring error had gone
> unnoticed:
[...]
> I'm always smiling when I convert code from C/C++ to
> Ada. In code of any significant size, Ada always
> discovers problems that went unnoticed in C/C++.
>

I am smiling, too, since I am not surprised at all. When someone asks
me what difference between computer languages especially between Ada
and C/C++, I tell him Ada has 75% check at compile time and 25% and
runtime while C/C++ in reverse.

Anh Vo