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-Thread: 103376,ec21c3c7cdc7ff3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: private types Date: 20 Mar 2006 10:09:09 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1142279908.327131.230200@j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <1259548.CMTukHGvVZ@linux1.krischik.com> <9006286.GT9LdmDZaR@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1142867349 11909 192.74.137.71 (20 Mar 2006 15:09:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:09:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3490 Date: 2006-03-20T10:09:09-05:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak writes: > Martin Krischik wrote: > > > Only a very few C/C++ programmers > > actually master the language. > > As is true for any language that is at least moderately useful. True. Language designers ought to take that into account -- whenever possible, try to design features subtle misunderstandings are unlikely to cause bugs. Suppose an Ada programmer and a C++ programmer both think that null/NULL must be represented as all-zero-bits. Both programmers are confused. But which programmer is more likely to write code that won't work on a machine where the assumption turns out to be false? - Bob