From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 10:16:43 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.programming Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!sable.ox.ac.uk!lady0065 From: lady0065@sable.ox.ac.uk (David J Hopwood) Subject: Re: What is OO (Was Why don't large companies use Ada?) Message-ID: <1994Nov30.171045.28800@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Sender: david.hopwood@lmh.oxford.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, UK References: <5918@gec-mrc.co.uk> <3b9s8d$m58@cleese.apana.org.au> <3bfbjr$306@gateway.wiltel.com> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 17:10:44 GMT Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8100 comp.lang.c:32609 comp.lang.c++:38963 comp.object:9181 comp.programming:5504 Date: 1994-11-30T17:10:44+00:00 List-Id: In article <3bfbjr$306@gateway.wiltel.com>, Igor Chudov wrote: >Andrew Dunstan (andrew@bugalugs.apana.org.au) wrote: >: Your statement implies that this is more possible in C than in Ada83. >: Would you care to justify that? I've written a lot in both, and AFAIK >: there is nothing at all more you can do in this line in C than in Ada83. >: Rather the reverse. > >Since you can implement Turing machine in both there can be nothing new under >the moon any more. I do wish people would stop quoting this. It really gets on my nerves. Turing completeness has little or no relevance to whether one language is better than another for writing useful and understandable programs. David Hopwood david.hopwood@lmh.oxford.ac.uk