From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Charles container library usage examples
Date: 11 Sep 2005 21:01:29 -0400
Date: 2005-09-11T21:01:29-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccr7bvnlp2.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3mzmjayrx.fsf@rr.trudgett
David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease> writes:
> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
>
> > David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease> writes:
> >
> >> Slow execution is also somewhat relative. Ada is slower than C, for
> >> instance, unless you disable run-time checks (an Ada strength),
> >
> > It seems to me that a language that allows run-time array-bounds
> > checking to be turned on or off, at the programmers whim, is clearly
> > superior to a language that turns it on/off at language design time.
>
> But it must be difficult to code buffer overflows in Ada... ;-) A lot
> of popular software wouldn't be possible without them!
;-)
- Bob
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-03 2:38 Charles container library usage examples David Trudgett
2005-09-03 5:15 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-03 9:45 ` Simon Wright
2005-09-04 6:25 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-05 11:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-04 0:26 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-04 9:49 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-06 3:01 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-06 16:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-07 0:15 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-04 17:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-06 3:01 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-06 5:08 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-06 6:46 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-06 7:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-24 0:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-09-09 14:57 ` James Alan Farrell
2005-09-10 7:38 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-10 14:55 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-10 15:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-10 17:58 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-12 0:24 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-11 10:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-11 21:14 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-13 23:41 ` Björn Persson
2005-09-14 6:39 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-12 0:21 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-12 0:57 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-12 1:01 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
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