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And838N@netscape.net wrote:

> I've heard professors say they don't like Ada because it's slow and does all those
> "bounds" checking "things".

They are misinformed: Ada is slow when the bounds checking is ON.
After some debugging phase, if you want, you can turn all checkings OFF !
And as you point out, better to have the possibility of bounds checking than not...
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