Re: Software vendors not using Ada but C

[aio!sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov!yow@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Bill Yow)]

In article <9306221230.AA05804@sed00.sed>, mking@FSD.COM (Mike King) writes:
|> In INFO-ADA Digest, V93, #387,  Colin James 0621 <cjames@dsc.blm.gov> writes
:

|> However, the real problem is the fact the statement doesn't convey the
|> intention to the reader/future code maintainer.  Only a poor software
|> engineer would write a statement like `c=a+++b;' in his/her code; the
|> rest of us would write `c=(a++)+b;' or `c=a+(++b);' so as not to depend
|> on the order of evaluation, and more importantly, to inform future
|> generations what was intended by the statement.
|> 

Well, when I was in school the C class I took (in 86) the professor would not
allow us to use ().  The reason, he felt that a good C programmer should not
need to use () but should know all of the precedence rules.  In fact he would
take off points on test for the use of ().  So there are at least 30 C programm
ers
who had it drilled into there heads not to use ().  

And this was not a small school either, the engineer school had over 5,000 stud
ents and the entire school was over 20,000.

                                                Later,
                                                Bill Yow
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