From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/19
Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl
Sandy McPherson wrote:
>
> It depends upon which type of large system you wish to implement. Ever
> tried to write an operating system, or a configurable toolkit, which needs
> to use callbacks, in Ada?
Yes - in fact, there are multiple RTOSs on my project written in Ada.
> A Motif based GUI?
I have personally written nultiple Ada tools on DEC that use Motif. Callbacks
work just fine, and they are quite straightforward to implement. Ada 95, with
an explicit access-to-subprogram feature, probably makes this equally simple
on all platforms.
> Whether this is a problem of Ada
> as a language is disputable
Absolutely.
> If on the other hand you have a bare chip and need to write a complex
> embedded system, (and you have a GOOD Ada compiler), then Ada is probably a
> better starting point, because there are so many fetures built into the
> language which you have to do manually when coding good C.
Since I haven't written much C for embedded systems, I couldn't say.
> The main advantage that C has over Ada is that the compilers are generally
> very reliable (because of their small size)
Possibly - I have seen reliable Ada compilers and not-so-reliable ones.
> and produce efficient machine code.
Why is this an advantage of C over Ada? Ada certainly produces efficient
machine code, given a good compiler. In fact, there are examples of Ada
outperforming C with regard to efficiency.
> Tasking looks like a good idea,
> but the implementations can be weak; in fact most spacecraft control
> systems I have seen implement their own tasking mechanisms, especially
> where they have to respond to hardware interrupts.
This has been my experience as well. However, protected records may
be a better mechanism for some of those cases where tasking wasn't appropriate.
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1996-06-19 0:00 C is 'better' than Ada because Alan Brain
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-22 0:00 ` David Morton
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-23 0:00 ` The Deviant
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-06-23 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` token%/etc/HOSTNAME
1996-06-23 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-06-23 0:00 ` David Morton
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-06-27 0:00 ` ) OH NO "...begs the question..." Ralph Silverman
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Bill Wendling
1996-06-23 0:00 ` C is 'better' than Ada because John Winters
1996-06-23 0:00 ` David Morton
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Mike Roske
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-10 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-11 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-07-17 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-17 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-18 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-07 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Tim McGuire
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Richard O'Rourke
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Dirk Dickmanns
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-27 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Ada is 'better' than C because John Herro
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Franz Kruse
1996-08-04 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-06 0:00 ` GAFFNEY.BRIAN
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Frank Lipski
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-29 0:00 ` C is 'better' than Ada because Bob Kitzberger
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Dirk Dickmanns
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Dirk Dickmanns
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Mike Roske
1996-08-15 0:00 ` David Shochat
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-16 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-08-16 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Dirk Dickmanns
1996-07-31 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Ada is 'better' than C because William Clodius
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-08-12 0:00 ` OBryan Anthony H
1996-08-12 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-12 0:00 ` Bob Kurtz
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Tom Watson
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-29 0:00 ` C is 'better' than Ada because system
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-24 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Steve Howard
1996-07-27 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Mike Roske
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-26 0:00 ` kennedy1
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-10 0:00 ` John F. Bode
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Mike Roske
[not found] ` <4rvr2j$2gb0@info4.rus.uni-s <nhn30yhw6t.fsf@paralysys>
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-07-08 0:00 ` C is 'better' than Ada ... NOT!! Hugh Dunne
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-12 0:00 ` C is 'better' than Ada because John F. Bode
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
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1996-07-21 0:00 ` Alfonso Urdaneta
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
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1996-08-01 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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1996-08-10 0:00 ` Craig Franck
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1996-08-20 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-27 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-27 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Bob Cousins
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Bob Cousins
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Van Snyder
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1996-08-15 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
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1996-08-28 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-20 0:00 ` nasser
1996-08-15 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-08-15 0:00 ` William C Brennan
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1996-07-18 0:00 ` Hamilton Link
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
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