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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/17
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Date: 1996-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Oliver said

"Electing at random one of many issues, I generally find string
processing in C less tedious than Ada83. One of the rare occasions
where the beauty of Ada83 strings showed was this:"

Are you including automatic storage reclamation -- that seems rather hard
work in C, and is of course built in to Unbounded_String handling?