From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:30c7:: with SMTP id q190mr683507itq.20.1552356264657; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:04:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:30d1:: with SMTP id r17mr20932639otg.269.1552356264301; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!fdn.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.166.216.MISMATCH!82no55921itk.0!news-out.google.com!d79ni67itc.0!nntp.google.com!82no55919itk.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:04:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Intervention needed? From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:04:24 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55843 Date: 2019-03-11T19:04:23-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, 11 March 2019 22:08:38 UTC, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > On 3/11/19 4:34 PM, Lucretia wrote: > > On Friday, 8 March 2019 16:43:50 UTC, Olivier Henley wrote: > >> Maybe someone with all the proper ammunitions could enlighten this user: > >> > >> https://users.rust-lang.org/t/if-ada-is-already-very-safe-why-rust/21911/11 > > > > Just tore them a new one :) > > As far as I can see, Rust's only innovation is safer pointers, but it still has > a bad design that requires the use of pointers. In Ada, pointers are never > needed.* So Ada is still safer when dealing with pointers, since you never need to. > > Other than that, Rust seems to be a typical C-family language with all the > dangers that implies. So Ada is significantly safer there, too. > > *1st-order approximation. Probably 2nd and 3rd, too Go on that thread and explain that to them.