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From: Arnold <Arnold@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:34:56 +0200
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Date: 2005-03-10T14:35:16+00:00
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CTips wrote:
>  - the safety features of Ada can come with a significant run-time cost

I am willing to sacrifice the run-time cost for proven safety.

> C doesn't have that cost. However, if you want to have similar levels of 
> checking, you have to roll your own run-time checks. On the other hand, 
> because you're rolling your own, the run-time checks are a lot less 
> expensive.

And a lot more fragile.  Will we ever get away from the 'rolling your 
own' mentality?

> Also, since a lot of interesting things require escaping from the core 
> language and bending the rules of the language, you have two options:
>   - you can write it all in assembly
>   - or you can write in a language where you can reasonably expect that 
> your bending of the rules won't make the compiler do something you 
> didn't expect.

> I'd rather use C for this purpose.

And I would rather not use your 'rolled' stuff for safety critical 
systems.