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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Inherited Methods and such
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"Maciej Sobczak" <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> BTW - your argument about covering this issue with education is
> dangerous - someone might use it against you the next time anybody
> criticizes "other" languages for being error prone... ;-)

I actually worried about that when I wrote it, but I left it because
expecting 100% detection of errors isn't possible; there are always some
that will get through. And it's not clear to me that anyone would use such a
language. But that doesn't excuse languages that only detect 10% of common
errors. Ada strikes nearly the right balance (although I'd like the option
to detect of uninitialized objects to be required; pragma Normalize_Scalars
is both optional and doesn't detect all such objects).

                              Randy.