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* Re: Ada vs standard languages / reliability
@ 1989-11-09  9:40 Michael Hunter
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From: Michael Hunter @ 1989-11-09  9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)


gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley) writes:
>I probably shouldn't do this, but here are some nitpicks:
>Ada is NOT a much more powerful language than C. Ada has some features
>that C doesn't, and C has some features that Ada doesn't and so on.
>They are both turing complete (or whatever the phrase is). If you
>are going to make such a broad statement, you need to carefully
>define what powerful is.
Yea...I could write a turing machine in either....in fact you can write a
turing machine with gotos, moves, and compares.  I don't think I would even be
happy with this machine.

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