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> > Sorry but you must live in another planet :) All the C++ code I've seen
> > are so full of bugs that I'm not inclined to buy that! Ok it *may* be
> > possible but how many C++ programmers are *good* enough and *wise*
> > enough to achieve that ? That's the real question to me, and from where
> > I stand this is close to 0% !
>
> I am more optimistic - I put it at 1% ;-).
   When I was first switching from C to Ada I sometimes tried translating
some existing C code (no, not necessarily mine) to Ada and that process
almost invariably revealed errors in the C code.