From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,76ec5d55630beb71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-03 04:48:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 200X Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3EDC0BE6.42300129@somewhere.nil> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1054640934 26732 129.241.83.78 (3 Jun 2003 11:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:48:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38456 Date: 2003-06-03T11:48:54+00:00 List-Id: Gautier Write-only wrote: > 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. Well I wouldn't say Ada is slow. I think C would be just as slow if it *had* bounds checking. > After some debugging phase, if you want, you can turn all checkings > OFF ! However be extremely careful with this. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/