From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++
Date: 1997/09/05
Date: 1997-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Sep5.143720.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.873461400@merv
In article <dewar.873461400@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> James White says
>
> <<
> Ada may have advantages over C++, but only C++ allows these incredibly
> powerful programming techniques. Unfortunately, the techniques are also
> incredibly complicated and incredibly ugly.>>
> Seriously, I think this quest after "power" in languages, rather than
> basic functionality, is misguided. An important ingrediant in achieving
> reliability is to keep things simple at all levels.
Real "power" makes it easier to shoot oneself in the foot.
With multiuser computers, one can even get the feet of neighbors.
"Power" seems the opposite of safety.
Larry Kilgallen
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1997-09-02 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (Expression Templates) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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1997-09-05 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ Jon S Anthony
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (vs Lisp) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (Ada 0X) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (vs Lisp) Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (high-performance libraries) James B. White, III (Trey)
2001-07-21 16:45 Ada vs C++ Lao Xiao Hai
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