FW: Ada 200X

[Erlo Haugen <elh@terma.com>]

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From: Gautier Write-only [mailto:gautier@somewhere.nil] 
Sent: 3. juni 2003 04:46
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Ada 200X


And838N@netscape.net wrote:

> I've heard professors say they don't like Ada because it's slow and 
> does all those "bounds" checking "things".

>They are misinformed: Ada is slow when the bounds checking is ON. After
some debugging phase, if you want, you can turn all checkings OFF ! And as
you point out, better to have> the possibility of bounds checking than
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Wouldn't
subtype day_number is natural range 1..31;
type month_days is array (day_number) of some_other_type;

eliminate the boundschecking??

Erlo Haugen