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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
>   Check the length of the string to be read, then read either that 
> number of characters or the maximum buffer size.  Of course, this means 
> in many cases you have to read the string twice while Ada allows you to 
> read it once.  (Ask for N characters and get a count of how many you get.)

Huh? fread, fgets, istream.getline, istream.read are all ways of
reading up to a pre-determined amount of data into a buffer in C
and C++. In no case does the string need to be read twice.
What a bizarre claim!