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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) wrote in message
news:<17cd177c.0305072114.24f04783@posting.google.com>...
> > softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng):
> >
> > [Ada attributes]
> >
> > > Yes, Ada extended Pascal very strongly in this regards,
> > > without any particular consideration of how useful
> > > these extensions would actually turn out to be.
> >
> > [other Ada attributes]
> >
> > > Like I said, Ada has amazing amounts of itsy-bitsy stuff.
> > > Now which of these features, if missing, would take you
> > > more than a minor effort to provide yourself?  If and
> > > when necessary, rather than present by default all the time?
> >
> > If I had to reproduce them each time I use them, it would sum
> > up to a lot of time... and there are more interesting to do
> > in life than reprogramming them.
>
> Do you really need your own sub-range of integers
> very often?  Arrays with variable index ranges?
> You must do a very different type of programming
> from what I do.

Let me guess, you're one of these people who believes that only freshmen
need subscript range checking, aren't you?  You're one of these people who'd
rather debug a segmentation fault from a core dump than see a message
"Subscript out of range in <FILE> at <LINE NUMBER>", right?