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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/07 Message-ID: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 167170530 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rgqp7$iv6@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:29:56 +0100, Peter Amey wrote: >"The superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations that >would require his superior skill" > >I use Ada precisely because it avoids the need constantly to demonstrate >my superior skill :-) I do the same in C. The problem is that Ada won't *let* you use your superior skill, i.e., nothing is gained by it. For someone who knows what they're doing, it's just as easy to write good, clean, safe code in C (or assembly, or *any* language) as it is in Ada. -- #include http://emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov/ _ Kevin D Quitt USA 91351-4454 96.37% of all statistics are made up Per the FCA, this email address may not be added to any commercial mail list