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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:06:43 +0200
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Kevin Cline wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message =
news:<bc4n70$fei5u$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>...
>> kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote:
>>=20
>> >  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.
>>=20
>> And that's been posted to comp.lang.ada? ;-)
>
>Sorry, Ada doesn't solve this problem.

In what respect? The primary question was about safety, not some kind
of hyper-versatility. And the safety problem cannot be solved with C++
and an STL.


Vinzent.

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