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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability
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In article <aenfam$oc3$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> It would be neither criminal nor negligent to use a language without bounds
> checking. It *might* be negligent to use one without bounds checking and not
> manually insert the checks or otherwise certify via analysis or test that
> the bounds won't be exceeded. It is - or ought to be - very well understood
> in the industry that failure to check array bounds (via language, manual
> code, analysis or test) is a major source of easily prevented errors. You
> don't *have* to use Ada - it would just be cheaper to use a language that
> performed commonly accepted compile and/or runtime checks.

We cannot prejudge what would be cheaper in all situations.
Some programs make only minor use of arrays.