From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:22:12 -0600
Date: 2003-06-01T20:22:12-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2003.06.02.02.22.09.923142@mail.utexas.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5.1054503443.12990.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:36:27 -0400, And838 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.
IMO programmers for the most part are far too concerned with speed and far
too little concerned with correctness.
Also, it's not uncommon to find someone who tries to do "cute" things to
optimize some local operation for speed, but then embeds it in a horribly
inefficient exponential-time algorithm.
--
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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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 [this message]
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
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
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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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