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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: An interesting object lesson (Ada vs C)
Date: 1998/04/26
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Date: 1998-04-26T00:00:00+00:00
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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