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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 14:45:19 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C# new features (v.7) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:45:20 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <5f542dff-8dd0-49b8-8228-3ccc8248c57d@googlegroups.com> <276a2153-b81f-4e19-9615-530e798e5798@googlegroups.com> <1533893062.503569684.598007.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <877f6y3lzo.fsf@nightsong.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.179.228 X-Trace: sv3-rYU06c29d6HSiutw+Z5vdMLFgoGg6JxozGCQG3/x7enmSZAQ2pXc0tJ7PaXgZ+MOa0XF4JgYNh4eo8p!K+NPd02+O14+0WxEIQDOLiPFJeDAG4esIP8iMmPt48HWeeqhh9b6xoU0rZsoToPbwzjv63JCGeXF!91q61ofth7TpYXN6IXnkNparWtmt X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2273 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32906 Date: 2016-12-17T15:45:20-05:00 List-Id: On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:13:24 -0600, "Nasser M. Abbasi" declaimed the following: >On 12/17/2016 4:09 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> >> Younger programmers (those who didn't grow up dealing with old slow >> machines with little memory) generally use lower performance but more >> convenient languages rather than C, Ada, etc. They're protected from >> integer overflow by bignums, memory errors by bounds checking, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> alloc/free errors by garbage collection, etc. > > >Which one of these so called "modern" and "fun" languages >that Younger programmers use has bounds checking built in? > I suspect they mean in terms of the infamous buffer overrun error of C These (unnamed) language will object if you try to index a structure past its end. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/