From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: An interesting object lesson (Ada vs C)
Date: 1998/04/26
Date: 1998-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hg3gv5l3.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.893600073@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Recently during one of my classes (on microprocessor architecture, where
> I asked them to do tests on some particular aspect of MP performance), I
> received the message below from a student who really knows what he is
> doing, and got completely stumped, to the point, where, as you will see
> from the message, he was sure he had found a gcc or Pentium bug. These
> kind of dangers that come from using an untyped language waste a huge
> amount of time. Needless to say if the student had used Ada, he would
> have saved himself a lot of time.
... Or just teach your students to always compile with gcc -Wall (it would
have catched that).
-Andi
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-26 0:00 An interesting object lesson (Ada vs C) Robert Dewar
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
1998-04-27 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-29 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-04-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-04-27 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
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