Re: Ada (was Rival JSF teams fly final STOVL flights with flair, highlight strengths)

["Emmanuel Gustin" <Emmanuel.Gustin@skynet.be>]

"Matthew V. Jessick" <mjessick@gte.net> wrote in message
news:3B6F73F9.15E98173@gte.net...

> C++ to me requires considerably more discipline to program
> without silly bugs.

For any large project, I suspect that C++/C software is also
more expensive than software written in a modern language.
The compilers may be cheap but that is beside the point;
because of the rather unsafe characteristics of these languages
the debugging stage of development is inevitably longer and
validation more difficult. That quickly becomes much more
expensive than even a US$ 10,000 compiler.

The best excuse for using C/C++ is that, as C is basically
a gold-plated assembler, it is convenient for implementing
low-level interactions with hardware. But for a large and
mission-critical application it too unsafe. You never know
*for sure* that it isn't going to set its pointers to the wrong
address and crash the entire environment. And the aircraft
with it.

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