Re: C# new features (v.7)

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 12/17/2016 4:09 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:

>
> Younger programmers (those who didn't grow up dealing with old slow
> machines with little memory) generally use lower performance but more
> convenient languages rather than C, Ada, etc.  They're protected from
> integer overflow by bignums, memory errors by bounds checking,
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> alloc/free errors by garbage collection, etc.


Which one of these so called "modern" and "fun" languages
that Younger programmers use has bounds checking built in?

Can one even declare a variable in these languages with restricted
bounds?  May be I am misunderstanding the context you are thinking
of here.

I thought Ada was unique in this area, one of the few language
if not only one.

>Lots of very good
> developers shipping successful products have never programmed in
> anything but Javascript or Python or Ruby.  Ada and C are niche
> languages for embedded control and C++ is for when performance requires
> it (except now Go and Rust are cutting in on that niche too).
>
> As others have said, C++ has also improved a lot lately, with more
> improvements coming.
>

I would not touch c++ not matter how good it becomes. Such a
complex language. Computer languages should be simple
to understand. Ada also has got too complex from its
original1983 version.

We all should go back to using Turbo Pascal. That was a simple,
an easy to understand and a fun language to program in :)

--Nasser