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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-11 15:31:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C bug of the day Date: 11 Jun 2003 15:31:56 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.76.54.22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055370717 11246 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2003 22:31:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jun 2003 22:31:57 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39013 Date: 2003-06-11T22:31:57+00:00 List-Id: Vinzent Hoefler wrote in message news:... > kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote: > > > I'd rather have a language > >in which all of the defaults were fundamentally safe, but with the > >freedom to override them if you had special constraints, or even in > >cases where you came across a case which the language authors hadn't > >considered. I don't know such a language, however; it may exist > >somewhere, but if it does, it certainly isn't very popular or wide > >spread. > > And that's been posted to comp.lang.ada? ;-) Sorry, Ada doesn't solve this problem. Ada has no equivalent to the C++ STL. Ada is fine as long as you are happy to program using only arrays. Beyond that, you are stuck searching the web for some public domain components and hoping they have been debugged enough to be reliable, or writing your own and hoping that you don't somehow screw up new/unchecked deallocation.