From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,899fc98b2883af4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-16 12:07:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.ucsd.edu!not-for-mail From: Dr Chaos Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) Followup-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Univ of Calif San Diego Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305091549.48b9c5d9@posting.google.com> <7507f79d.0305121629.5b8b7369@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305130543.60381450@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305140549.3a87281b@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305141747.5680c577@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305160425.3bb89749@posting.google.com> <1053091306.979352@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu X-Trace: news1.ucsd.edu 1053112035 6316 132.239.222.85 (16 May 2003 19:07:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news1.ucsd.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:07:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63941 comp.object:63568 comp.lang.ada:37402 misc.misc:14235 comp.software-eng:19242 Date: 2003-05-16T19:07:15+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 16 May 2003 09:21:46 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote: > Marc A. Criley wrote: >> Given the effort it saves, why not code in Ada? > > Yep. C++ also gives you some of the same advantages. > For example, iteration over containers looks like > for (i = c.begin(); i != c.end(); ++i) > so you get the same lack of overruns. But Ada has a > lot more of this type of stuff. Does the C++ language prevent 'i' from being modified abnormally in the loop and the container being dereferenced abnormally thereby?