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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:28:43 +0000
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, tmoran@acm.org wrote:

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|When comparing to C, you should remember to turn off all run-time|
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What would be the point of using Ada then? Ada is good, partially
because it has checks.