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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:50:51 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-06-02T10:50:51+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbfa6b$rr7$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5.1054503443.12990.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

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".  My opinion is; take a look
at the bugs in MS code that lead to viruses because of buffer exploits
and unchecked "bounds".  Ada just seems a smart way to go, especially
with newer faster processors.  Most people don't recognize the speed up
anyway unless the go from 300MHz to a 2.4GHz.
 
It's not slow either due to checks, because checking is under your control.
If you are sure you don't need them, configure them away, or add
a pragma.

: I've been working with Ada seriously for about a month now and the more
I learn the more I like it.  It does not have the flavor of a "business"
type language, even though it is perfectly useable for such applications.

It does have built in decimal types and accompanying packages;
builtin concurrency support (working, well defined) is also easily
overlooked (perhaps because it is not present in popular languages,
or not working well :-)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-01 21:36 Ada 200X And838N
2003-06-02  2:22 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2003-06-02  4:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 11:22   ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 14:09     ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 14:23       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 14:59         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 15:04           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:18             ` Bill Findlay
2003-06-02 15:32               ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:41               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:07           ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:04         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 14:23     ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 14:31       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:05         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:06         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 21:05         ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 22:59           ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-03  4:07             ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-03  7:52           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-06-03  9:09           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-03 14:54             ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-04  7:38               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-05  7:20                 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02  5:36 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-06-02  8:02 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-02 10:50 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2003-06-03  2:29 ` Steve
2003-06-03  2:45 ` Gautier Write-only
2003-06-03  8:38   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-03 11:48   ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 12:14     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-06-03 12:35       ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-07 21:16       ` Craig Carey
2003-06-08 11:14         ` Martin Dowie
2003-06-09 14:07           ` Craig Carey
2003-06-13 14:20             ` Matthew Heaney
2003-06-13 14:00         ` Matthew Heaney
2003-06-03 17:24     ` Robert A Duff
2003-06-03 17:45       ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 17:48         ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 18:05           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-04 10:36             ` Preben Randhol
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-31  1:51 David Botton
2004-10-31  7:33 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-31 18:59   ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-26 16:17 Ada 200x Adrian Hoe
2002-12-27 19:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-27 20:55   ` Robert A Duff
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