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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,80435549e92d4e0c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!nasal.pacific.net.au!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Charles container library usage examples From: David Trudgett Organization: Very little? References: <87mzmssqbq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4321a2e0_3@newsfeed.slurp.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q9JUVWifX3Ox9wlncQm5E2VJaC4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:57:22 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.8.44.95 X-Complaints-To: news@pacific.net.au X-Trace: nasal.pacific.net.au 1126486914 61.8.44.95 (Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:01:54 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:01:54 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4583 Date: 2005-09-12T10:57:22+10:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > David Trudgett writes: > >> Slow execution is also somewhat relative. Ada is slower than C, for >> instance, unless you disable run-time checks (an Ada strength), > > It seems to me that a language that allows run-time array-bounds > checking to be turned on or off, at the programmers whim, is clearly > superior to a language that turns it on/off at language design time. But it must be difficult to code buffer overflows in Ada... ;-) A lot of popular software wouldn't be possible without them! David -- David Trudgett http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/ What I don't know is not as much of a problem as what I am sure I know that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain