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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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Date: 9 May 2003 16:49:44 -0700
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"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message news:<b9gko2$pub@library1.airnews.net>...

> Let me guess, you're one of these people who believes that only freshmen
> need subscript range checking, aren't you?  You're one of these people who'd
> rather debug a segmentation fault from a core dump than see a message
> "Subscript out of range in <FILE> at <LINE NUMBER>", right?

Well, no.  When I was a freshman and in the habit of making
too many such mistakes, I would indeed have preferred the
latter messages.  Even to the extent of making it the primary
criteria for choosing a language.

But for how long can you keep on making the same type
of mistakes?