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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> The point I have been trying to make is that Ada catches
> a small extra subset of errors (and compared to modern C, C++
> or Java, the "extra" might be non-existent).  Ada or not,

Nope - a while back we did a comparison using a rather well known
study into the root causes of programming errors in 'C' (I'll reply with
the exact reference when I get to work on Monday, if you want) Roughly
50% of the errors either could not occur in Ada or would be caught by the
compiler. C++ also (almost by definition) contains the same root causes
as 'C'.