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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing,
 then add scaffolding later to strengthen it?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:46:16 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-05-22, Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com> wrote:
> "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
>
>> I don't agree. C is a low level language, and good at that.
>
> I say Ada is far superior to C for doing low-level programming.
> Address clauses, representation clauses, packed arrays, ...
>

Unfortunately, C has one major advantage over Ada which is why it's
used for this kind of thing. Practically every platform out there has
a freely available C compiler which supports the platform as a target
so you can be sure you don't have to rewrite your C code in another
language when you want to port your code to a new environment.

Simon.

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