Re: meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" Ada on StackOverflow

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"John Perry" <john.perry@usm.edu> wrote in message 
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> On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 11:38:53 PM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> John Perry <john.perry@usm.edu> writes:
>> > I'm curious: did my implementation circumvent safety features?
>>
>> Were there any unchecked array accesses or anything like that?  If not,
>> that's a big help.
>
> No arrays at all; it's just linked lists. It's dangerous inasmuch as 
> pointers are
>dangerous, but I know from experience that Ada has certain rules to prevent
>pointer dangling.

Exactly: raw use of pointers is dangerous - you either get dangling pointers 
or leaks. And they're more work to use than the containers. They're best 
limited to implementing data structures where performance is paramount.

A container implementation handles memory management and much of the 
alogithms for you. That's easier to write, potentially safer, and may (or 
may) not be similar in performance. Which was the reason for my original 
question.

                        Randy.