Re: Any research putting c above ada?

["John Thomas Apa" <WolfMountainRanch@worldnet.att.net>]

CubanPete <haggedk1@ulysses.jhuapl.edu> wrote in article
<334d3da5.14386594@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>...
> On 10 Apr 1997 14:20:08 -0400, brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
> (Philip Brashear) wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> >Don't listen to the argument that Ada loses because it's not popular.
> >It's arguably the best language for producing software that works
> >right.
> >
> >Phil Brashear
> >CTA INCORPORATED
> >On my way to EDS
> 
> Come on now Phil.  There is no language that produces software that
> works "more right" than another.  Software is either right or it is
> not.   Ada may have a great debugger but VMS types will argue all day
> about how much better the debuger is on the VAX but I dont see tons of
> UNIX folks in VMS classes.
> 
> The only reason Ada still exists at all is that someone pushed the
> pentagon brass a few years back and convinced the military that it was
> such a good thing, and that ada was the wave of the future.   I've
> seen just as buggy code come from ada programmers as I have from
> fortran programmers.  C programmers of course dont write buggy code 
> -ever-

And if you believe that I think you miss your ride on the space ship!

One of Rational's VP did a study on c vs Ada a few years ago. They produce
IDEs for both languages so don't claim they have a vested intrest one way
or the other. It showed that _good_ engineers can write good code on
anything. However when it came to software that had to be maintained and
reliable Ada won hands down. That was c vs Ada83, if you have bothered to
keep abreast of the technology you would know how much better Ada95 is than
Ada83 and about anything else I've seem. I've done C, fortran, ada, asm,
and a few other languages on many platforms. I've researched Ada95 and
found that it provides a wealth of features to help my design remain robust
and maintainable. I don't have to fight the language to get the design
architecture that I want. Plus with gnat (validated and wonderful) it's
cheap, can you say free? I knew you could.

Enough said.

> 
> 
> >and
> >Adjunct faculty member at the University of Dayton (which uses Ada as
its
> >core CS language)
> >
> 
> Adjunct means that your not qualified to be hired full time?? 
>