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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 01:07:56 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Koch Larsen wrote:
> It is not a question of prevention. C++ allows you to do some really 
> dangerous things - in my mind rightfully so. When you do program in C++ you 
> must "constrain yourself" and not use the dangeous stuff - unless you need 
> to do so, of course ;-)

And Ada lets you do all that but you have to be explicit that you are 
doing it - I don't know of any other language that forces you to be 
explicit that you are doing something dangerous.

Cheers

-- Martin