Surely once an (unsafe) program has been passed through such a filter, the
inherent problems within it should then become evident when it is compiled
(variable names mis-typed etc.). Thus the programmer would hopefully start to
learn better programming techniques.
Peter Jewell
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-----Original Message-----
From: W. J. Metzger [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 1998 8:47 AM
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Subject: Re: Errata: Re: Comparison of C and Ada costs
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Van Snyder wrote:
> A worthy exercise would be to produce a source-to-source translator
> that replaces outmoded unsafe feature usage with modern safer
> feature usage, and put it into the public domain.
So then people who like 'unsafe' methods have only to pass their
'unsafe' programs through this filter before compiling? Doesn't seem
like much of a gain to me.
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