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From: Chris Littlejohns <chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/17
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James O'Connor wrote:
> 
> In <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk>, Chris Littlejohns <chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >Ramses Youhana wrote:
> >>
> >> Another thing not mentioned is that Ada is far more complicated to learn
> >> fully than is C/C++.  The complexity of the language can add to an increase
> >> in the probabilty of bugs being introduced and also adds to an increase in
> >> project maintanace costs.
> >
> >The only area of Ada that I've observed people having real difficulty
> >with is Tasking. However, concurrent threads is something that a lot of
> >people have difficulty with irrespective of the language.
> >
> >With regards to maintenance, there's many people out there who consider
> >C/C++ a Write only language. It takes real talent to write an unreadable
> >Ada program. I know what I'd prefer any day, and it begins with 'A'.
> 
> Not really, my first professional programming was maintaing a poorly designed
> Ada program.  The code was a disaster.  No private types, all types in the
> public part of the spec.  Obscure use of unchecked-conversion, misunderstanding
>  of how enumerated types were indexed.
>   This experience quickly got me over the Ada propaganada and I now fully
> believe that there is no substitue to disciplined, experienced designers and
>  programmers.

100% agree, I was just assuming a level of competence slightly above the inability
to structure anything at all!!  :-)

> 
> 
> James O'Connor
> oconnor@apci.net