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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: C# new features (v.7)
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On 2016-12-17, Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com> wrote:
> "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> "bounds checking" means "array bounds checking".
> Almost all languages have that (C being a notable exception).
>

And also C++ where you don't get it unless you go out of your
way to use an unexpected (but safe) method as the usual "[]" is
not bounds checked in at least the parts of the C++ standard
library which I have used.

Simon.

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