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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 23 Mar 2005 15:37:37 -0600
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In article <1111607633.301232.62490@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> writes:

> Some of the cited cases provide checks that are free in terms of
> run-time, but run-time is hardly the major cost in most software.

Really ?

Even programs I write for my own personal use are run _many_ more times
than they are compiled.  Personally, I often spend compile time thinking
some more about the problem, sometimes to good advantage :-)

> Just for one obvious example, Ada doesn't provide an easy way to
> express/do most of the things one can do with the C or C++
> preprocessor.

It does not provide a preprocessor, for safety reasons.

But what programming step (as distinguished from construction trick)
can only be performed from a preprocessor ?

> Some areas are somewhat more questionable -- calling a class a "tagged
> record" is clearly a mistake, but it's open to question whether it
> should be classified under poor expression of the concept, or just
> general idiocy.

I see no mistake.  Is it possible your background in Pascal is inadequate
and overwhelmed by your background in C* languages.