From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!yuma!yuma.acns.colostate .edu!olender@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Kurt Olender)
Subject: Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?
Date: 5 Dec 92 00:15:30 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OLENDER.92Dec4171531@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu> (raw)
srheintze@happy.colorado.edu writes:
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HOWEVER, please read "A dynamic Vector is harder than it looks" from the
June 1992 is issue of JOOP (Journal of Object Oriented Programming) - vol 5
no 4. *THIS ARTICLE IS SCARY* Basically Tom Cargill pointed out a bug that
nearly all C++ textbooks have made when they implement a dynamically sized
array. This includes the textbook written by the implementor of the AT&T
Cfront compiler (will I get in trouble if I mention his name?). If the
language is so convoluted that even the experts (including the compiler
writers) cannot get their simple textbook examples correct, then I conclude
there is something drastically wrong with the language.
Well, without making any statements about the relative merits of Ada and C++,
I don't think you can make much real hay out of this fact. After all, legend
has it that that it was 10 years from the first publication of a binary search
algorithm to the first publication of a correct binary search algorithm.
Perhaps it only says that we're not really good at these things, until we've
done them a few (dozens, hundreds, thousands?) of times.
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