From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tim Behrendsen" Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/30 Message-ID: <01bb7dd2$d8693bc0$96ee6fcf@timhome2>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170978638 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31EE19D1.6977@lfwc.lockheed.com> <31efe069.63062188@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4sopkp$dao@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <31F613F3.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <4tijip$rlo@corn.cso.niu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: A-SIS mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote in article <4tijip$rlo@corn.cso.niu.edu>... > Why are you so prejudiced against Ada? You know next to nothing about it > But reading your original post you have essentially already decided what > Ada is. [bringing out the fire extinguisher] I'm not; my questions/statements were in response to the points raised by the original author. I know nothing about Ada; it's advocates seem to feel that is a very good language, however. I'm curious why it hasn't caught on, when it has had so much time to gain a larger following that it has. -- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com)