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On Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:26:29 UTC+1, Maciej Sobczak  wrote:
> > The one concrete reason I've ever heard for using C or C++ instead of Modula-2 or Ada is that C/C++ allow you to perform pointer arithmetic
> 
> Really? I would never consider that reason myself.

Me neither, but then  you can do pointer arithmetic in Ada, you just use normal numbers and convert to an address.