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From: volkert@nivoba.de (Volkert)
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Subject: Re: My love-hate relationship with C
Date: 22 Oct 2003 11:40:58 -0700
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<1066833793.934909@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>...
> Volkert wrote:
> > http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15306089
> 
> Notice that one of his peeves is "The language should simply
> not permit leaks;", which Ada does not solve.
> 
> Another is allowing multiple indirections, when you have
> pointers to pointers. Ada permits this as well, of course.
> 
> Another is free-formatting of source code ("C has no formatting
> rules"). Ada allows the same freedom.

Anyway, if i read some of the responds to the article if feel
that there is a strong desire for some language like Ada.