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Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics
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In article <1087325485.307616@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>> Generally agreed. I think you would also agree that Ada forces
>> the writer to engineer the project better. You are forced to
>> do more planning with Ada. Compared this with C, where you
>> can always pass around void pointers, etc. to work around
>> things that you forgot to design for.
> 
> Forgetting to design things is obviously not a feature of
> the programming language.

But reminding you about such gaps _is_ a language-specific trait.

> So the flip side of what you are
> saying is that once you accidentally leave out a feature,
> Ada will make it difficult to add.

Certainly more difficult to add piecemeal, and thus more difficult
to forget half of the implementation of that feature.