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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:35:11 -0500
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> A second problem is that C++ leaves the order of evaluation of
> subexpressions in an expression undefined, unlike Java.

Ada shares this flaw with C++.

The reason is to allow the compiler to choose the most efficient order.
But I think it's possible to design a language that gets the best
of both worlds (allow that sort of efficiency, without the portability
problems).

- Bob