Re: ada paper critic

[Immanuel Scholz <news@kutzsche.net>]

sk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> ... harder to write really nasty code in ada.
> 
> Are you sure ?
> 
> I personally have had no problems whatsover in writing
> truly dreadfull code in Ada and enjoyed every minute
> of it.

I do not neglate the possibility to do such things, but I would not employ 
you ;-)


>> (The extense use of pointer arithmetic is the wordst
>> and most powerful weapon in C).
> 
> Are you under the (false) impression that you cannot
> totally hose the memory with Ada and address arithmetic ?
> 
> Again, tons of fun !

Hopeful in Ada to juggle with pointers is not the common practise? At 
least I heard so.


>> What about the operator overloading possibilities in ada?
> 
> type My_Natural is new Natural;
> 
> function "+"(A, B : My_Natural) return My_Natural is
> begin
>     return 0;
> end "+";

Surely you can do harm with a weapon. If you do it willful, there is 
nothing to do against it. But overloading assignment creates usually not 
willful errors.


>> Sometimes only provocative statements ...
> 
> That is BS and you know it.

Of course. 

I want to give some self proven posting. (And it was late of the day after 
pillaging several pubs as I posted this ;-)

Immanuel Scholz