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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Paul E. Bennett" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:05:21 +0000 Organization: HIDECS Consultancy Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> Reply-To: peb@amleth.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: amleth.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1110060243 28053 80.176.76.193 (5 Mar 2005 22:04:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 22:04:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 Mail-Copies-To: mail2news@news.demon.co.uk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8687 comp.lang.c++:44230 comp.realtime:971 comp.software-eng:4502 Date: 2005-03-05T22:05:21+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > * when the compiler cannot check some code statically, it inserts > run-time checks which are guaranteed to catch all errors by raising > exceptions. In C++ you must code these checks by hand, and of > course at some point you'll forget one crucial check which will cost > you days in debugging. I think the fallacy of that statement has been proven already (in a very expensive way). -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett .................... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy ..... Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-811095 Going Forth Safely ....EBA. http://www.electric-boat-association.org.uk/ ********************************************************************