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>>The point I have been trying to make is that Ada catches
>>a small extra subset of errors (and compared to modern C, C++
>>or Java, the "extra" might be non-existent).  Ada or not,
> 
> Nope - a while back we did a comparison using a rather well known
> study into the root causes of programming errors in 'C' (I'll reply with
> the exact reference when I get to work on Monday, if you want) Roughly
> 50% of the errors either could not occur in Ada or would be caught by the
> compiler. C++ also (almost by definition) contains the same root causes
> as 'C'.

Or (at the risk of irritating those who've
seen me post this before) read: "C Traps and
Pitfalls"  NONE of the Traps and Pitfalls
in the first one-third of the book would
ever happen in Ada.