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: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "James A. Squire" Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/01 Message-ID: <31D7DE7C.16FF@csehp3.mdc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 163114203 sender: Ada programming language references: <4q8fbo$701@red.interact.net.au> comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: MDA Avionics Tools & Processes mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.01 9000/715) Date: 1996-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kevin D. Quitt wrote: > > C is better than Ada, because it doesn't pretend it knows more about > programming than I do, and doesn't prevent me from doing those things that are > upon rare occasion necessary. Programming is C is like shaving with a razor; > as long as I know what I'm doing, there's no problem. Programming in Ada is > like using a shaver; it 'protects' the incompetent and is no help to the > experts. Ah yes, the libertarian-utopian approach to programming. Speaking as one who shaves with an electric shaver, you can call me incompetent if you like, but I rest easy knowing I will never draw blood from my neck. Furthermore, I know many software engineers who "know what they are doing" (yours truly included) and who are ready at the drop of the hat to ignore that knowledge in order to cut any corner they can to get the job done on deadline (or so we perceive). Programming is a science; its practitioners (including me) persist in treating it as an art form. Do we need restraints in a language that, by the by was designed by people who DO very much "know more about programming than I do"? Betcherass -- James Squire MDA Avionics Tools & Processes ja_squire@csehp3.mdc.com Opinions expressed here are my own and NOT my company's "one of these days I'm going to better myself by going to Knight school" "You'll be a web knight instead of a web page!"