Thank you for your explanation Laslo Hunhold. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the fallibility of human programmers, and the vulnerability of C to errors. Even though I am a fan of the suckless philosophy and its programs, which are written in C, I wish that a less error-prone language would be used.
Perhaps I will write (or more likely re-write a C program) a very small program in Ada as a proof-of-concept of the viability of Ada for several purposes: - for me to learn Ada - as a proof-of-concept or illustration of the viability of Ada - to compare and contrast number of lines of source code, memory usage, speed etc. - if it turns out well, as advocacy for Ada - if it turns out ill, as a lesson learned, then I'll continue my search for a good alternative to C I am open to suggestions. I am thinking something from sbase or ubase. Ada is a big language with a lot of features. I definitely intend to work with a small subset of those features.
