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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.task.gda.pl!not-for-mail From: jtg Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:36:27 +0100 Organization: CI TASK http://www.task.gda.pl Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: pwr74.pwradio.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: korweta.task.gda.pl 1110821499 9229 153.19.176.74 (14 Mar 2005 17:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.task.gda.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:31:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-Organization: CI TASK http://www.task.gda.pl In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Organization-Notice: Organization line has been filtered Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9375 Date: 2005-03-14T18:36:27+01:00 List-Id: Paul E. Bennett wrote: > > It has often been commented that a sharp spike protruding from the centre > of the steering wheel will elicit more safe driving than seatbelts or > airbags. Getting used to having a safety net will tend to lead to the less > cautious approach. > So, why people don't mount these spikes, and instead they mount seatbelts and airbags? Strange, isn't it? I use Ada because I can crate programs much faster, while retaining safety level. If I had to write the same programs in C, I could retain the safety with "more cautious approach", but I would need more time to finish them.