Re: ada paper critic

[Immanuel Scholz <news@kutzsche.net>]

Dale Stanbrough wrote:

> Not quite sure what you mean about "stability of the resulting code".

Doning Things wrong can result either in disaster (as in C) or in defined 
exceptions (as in java). So I classify java to be produce more stabile code.

The best solution is to give a compile error for all things than can be 
decided compile time and only throw an defined exception runtime if the 
decission is simple not possible.

Also statements as "assert" in Java1.4 counts towards the "stability of 
produced code" - argument (because it is shipped in the release code!) - 
Macros like assert in C does not count really much.

Lbnl, some languages are tend to let you produce more fragile code than 
other (again, C get the rubbish ;-). It should be easy to produce right 
code, but very hard to compile buggy code.

Immanuel Scholz