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"kevin  cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 20, 12:37 pm, <adawo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> "Marc Boyer" <Marc.Bo...@enseeiht.yahoo.fr.invalid> wrote in message >
>>
>> It has always seemed rather odd to me that people who are as intelligent
>> as programmers, rarely question the silliness of using tools such as C
>> and C++ for serious work.
>> They simply take for granted that the kind
>> of errors that are so common in those languages are somehow akin to
>> the laws of nature.
>
> No, what actually happened is that expert C++ developers learned to
> use C++ in such a way that those errors can not happen.  While it is
> possible to write unsafe code in C++, it is also possible to adopt
> coding guidelines that makes it easy to find and eliminate unsafe
> code, and for most applications, that's quite good enough.  One reason
> that experts choose C++ over Ada for performance-critical applications
> because C++ templates allow compile-time type safety in high-level
> code in a way that Ada generics do not.

Wow. This is like looking into your gasoline tank with a cigarette
lighter for illumination. 

Regards -- Markus