From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com !tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Comments on Ada vs. C++ panel
Date: 9 Feb 93 16:34:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Feb9.163422.6736@mksol.dseg.ti.com> (raw)
In <OBRY.93Feb3162044@cheesesteak.flash.bellcore.com> obry@flash.bellcore.com (
Pascal Obry) writes:
>Fred,
>> I'm curious about this. Perhaps someone who agrees with this can
>> explain to me why a language restriction is better than, say, an
>> organizational policy restriction. Personally, I would consider a
>> language that allows me to do things in special cases to be better
>> than one which does not, even if the 'things' are not necessarily a
>> good idea in the usual case.
>No flamewar here.
>The answer could be : We need language restrictions because we are *only*
> humans. And even with a strong policy restrictions
> we can't be sure to stay in the straight line. And worst
> we can't be sure that others would stay ...
>So after while, how will you look at the software ?
The same way I look at it now. Well written and maintainable software
is well written and maintainable software. Poorly written and
unmaintainable software is poorly written and unmaintainable software.
Either can (and probably has been and will again) be produced in
pretty much any language. I simply don't see this as a convincing
argument.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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