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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada 200X
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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".  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 :-)