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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Howard Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/25 Message-ID: <31F78F08.191D@mtm.syr.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170100702 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31EE19D1.6977@lfwc.lockheed.com> <31efe069.63062188@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4sopkp$dao@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31f4fa31.317828803@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31F6162E.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <31f6affa.4007141@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems - Syracuse mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; I) Date: 1996-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kevin D. Quitt wrote: > I don't need Ada to find things I don't like about C; I can guarantee you I > know more of its problems than you do. What I found from looking at Ada is > that it has more and bigger problems, and is generally a less convenient tool. > That's what I mean by getting in my way. > What are the problems that you feel "more and bigger" in Ada than C? I certainly could believe the argument that Ada might be less convenient for a quick hack than a language like C, but I have found in my own code, as well as in reviews of other people's code, that there are whole classes of errors that just don't happen under Ada. -- E. Steve Howard | Lockheed Martin | Ocean, Radar, & Sensor Systems mailto:howard@mtm.syr.lmco.com | Syracuse, NY