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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote in message ...
>
>"Gordon Sande" <g.sande@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:2006052509454116807-gsande@worldnetattnet...
>>
>> How many Ada systems can match the undefined variable checking of the
>> old WatFor or the current Salford CheckMate or the Lahey/Fujitsu
>> global checking? It seems to be a thing associated with places that
>> run student cafteria computing on mainframes. Not much used anymore.
>> There was a similar student checkout PL/I from Cornell if I recall
>> correctly.
>>
>The default for Ada is to do thorough range checking on all numeric
>types.

Range checking is not a substitute for detection
of uninitialized variables.