Re: "C" vrs ADA

[dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)]

In article <584@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>[VAX/VMS C] is the worst 'C' development environment
>it has ever been my misfortune to work under, both because of the poor
>support for VMS in VAX C, and because of the incredibly poor performance
>of the resulting programs.

I think the $39.95 MIX C compiler for MS-DOS is somewhat worse.

Even a very careful reading of the VMS C documentation and release
notes reveals absolutely no bugs or deficiencies in the VMS C
environment.  If anything, as the manual makes clear, VMS C adds
functionality to the original UNIX implementation.

Compare this with the large number of bugs and deficiencies that are
documented in the manual for almost every UNIX program.

Also note that VMS C runtime environment automatically converts all
command-line arguments to lowercase, thus greatly simplifying argument
parsing.  And no lint-like program is provided, saving you the
temptation of using one and having to face the rude diagnostics it
would probably give you.

But perhaps the most outstanding advantage of VMS C environment is that
the cursor control routines require a terminal manufactured by DEC or
something equivalent.  This saves no end of trouble--no more time
wasted having to create termcap entries for strange terminals of
questionable quality.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi