Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 15:06:28 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Ramon:
>
>> One obious (or seemingly obvious) solution was Ada. Well, no, 
>> it wasn't. Maybe, even probably, if I had to develop low level 
>> stuff for embedded stuff but not for a large application. And, 
>> that was a killer for me, Ada does not really support easily 
>> resizable arrays. To make things worse, while there nowadays 
>> is Gnat, a nice modern IDE, there is a major lack of libraries.
>>
>> Falling over the famous Ariane 5 article
>
> The Ariane 5 failure shows that Ada programs are not 
> perfect/infallible. But that's true for most languages :-)
>

Ariane 5 just showed what happens when engineers reuse code 
without proper testing.

It could happen in any language.

--
Paulo