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From: jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon)
Subject: Re: if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop)
Date: 26 Feb 90 12:45:22 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <204@puma.ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5518@crdgw1.crd.ge.com

kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
>Back to Ada vs. C.  Ada, as specified, does a rather complete job
                 ^
>of eliminating bugs caused by single character typos.  (Ref the
>DO statement problem)

Sorry, you must be thinking of FORTRAN (e.g., DO 100 I = 1.10), not C.
If c.l.a is going to be comparing languages, let's get them right.

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  reply	other threads:[~1990-02-26 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1990-02-20 16:13 Reasons for dropping Ada Ted Holden
1990-02-20 21:04 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1990-02-20 23:03   ` Reasons for keeping Ada David Kassover
1990-02-21  0:40     ` Clement Pellerin
1990-02-21 19:02   ` Reasons for dropping Ada Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-22 16:07     ` Mike Coffin
1990-02-22 17:01       ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-02-22 21:51         ` Barry Margolin
1990-02-23 19:34           ` Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-25 19:58           ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 12:45             ` John F Nixon [this message]
1990-02-26 18:28               ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 20:55                 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-26 22:00                   ` David Kassover
1990-02-27 18:55                 ` Jeremy Epstein
1990-02-28  1:19                   ` Alex Blakemore
1990-02-28 18:56                     ` Ada functions versus arrays (i.e. () vs [] ) Richard A Hammond
1990-03-01  3:25                       ` Alex Blakemore
1990-03-01 13:11                         ` Robert Firth
1990-03-02 10:56                           ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-02 23:46                           ` Scott Simpson
1990-03-02 10:42                         ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-06 19:13                       ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-08 14:21                         ` John Goodenough
1990-03-14 18:19                     ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) RCAPENER
1990-03-01  0:29                   ` David Kassover
1990-03-01 15:11                     ` Steve Tynor
1990-03-01 18:29                       ` David Kassover
1990-03-02  0:19                 ` Robert D. Houk
1990-02-28 19:51         ` Andy DeFaria
1990-02-20 22:21 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Jeffrey M. Schweiger
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