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From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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Date: 6 Aug 2001 17:54:42 -0400
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In article <v6pmk9.313.ln@10.0.0.2>,  <Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be> wrote:
>The average car driver does not buy a car limited to 20km/hour.

As has been pointed out in the thread, Ada performance is comparable
to C given the right compiler (ie, a very good Ada compiler compares
favorably to a very good C compiler).

>Safety measures are one part of the equation. It's obviously always
>a trade-off between safety and speed (among other things). Balancing the
>discussion to only one side of the medal (the side that shines
>for Ada) is unfair. We could just as easily turn the tables and
>discuss some things where Ada just doesn't cut it.

But Ada performance is very good, as has been pointed out.

Besides, I certainly think it would be within the scope of the thread
for you to post examples and sources where this was true (note: that's
source in the journalistic sense).  So....  Feel free to do so.
Otherwise, what you say is just hearsay, I'm afraid.

	- Dan C.