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ADA advocates always talk about these safe guards but if its so easy to see how much better and safer it is show us some code. It is telling that the only snippet we see is from c.



The impression I get is that Ada's benefits are most apparent when implementing safety-critical systems, so it's hard to find individual snippets that show it off. Here is an open source project that supposedly demonstrates good Ada development practices:

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6619

(The cynic in me wants to point out that the only snippet we see in the article is buggy C.)




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