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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: J Greene Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/25 Message-ID: <3130C6FD.5128@nando.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141040414 references: <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> <4ges3t$mca@qualcomm.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Nando.net Public Access mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Date: 1996-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nasser Abbasi wrote: > > In article , ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) says: > > > >In article <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> x!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!usenet writes: > > > >> Given 2 equally good programmers one in C++ and one in Ada, most > >> people will agree that Ada code is easier to read than the C++ code. > > > >Most? I have yet to meet anyone who knows both Ada and C++ > >well enough to be able to make a reasoned comparison. > >-- > > Does one really need to be a guru in both languages to observe that > one is more readable than the other? > > I was not talking about a comprehensive comparison. I was only talking > about the readability (sp?) aspect of the languages. > > Nasser I have industry expierence in both languages. It has been my expierence that the readiblity of a language actually depends on the programming style of the author. I have come across pieces of Ada code which very painful to debug, and I can say the same for C++. I have also worked (thankfully a good deal of the time) with well written C++ code that was easy to pick up, and the same for Ada. Implementation and good software engineering make or break any software. As for readiblity, a poor software engineer can make either a nightmare. I have had to learn both, work in both, and maintain both. To be honest, each is just another language. As far as the argument of readibility goes, I have found that the programmer makes the difference, (between C++ and Ada) not the language. J.Greene