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Here's an apples to apples study proving otherwise:

http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.pdf

The others from that time period by the military and defense contractors showed something similar. In only one case did I see C++ and Ada tie but why wasnt evident. Note this was before automated proving in SPARK, Design-by-Contract in Ada 2012, and co tract/type/property-based testing tech. The numbers would likely be even higher. Of course, one would want a comparison against tech designed for same things in C which are plentiful now.



I was talking specifically about the strong typing, but this is an awesome study comparing two languages with strong typing. Thanks for sharing.

There probably is a point where the strictness of the typing starts influencing the bugginess of the code.


C isn't typed strongly.


The parts that allow you to do unsafe casting are easily detected by a static analysis.




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