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: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: <31eababe.247859913@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169030044 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rgqp7$iv6@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> 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: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:29:10 +0100, ntxbow wrote: >using your "superior skill" in my >book would mean using junk code that I would bounce as it would be >difficult to maintain and probably risky in implementation. I'd bounce any code like that myself. My code is clean, simple, well documented, and as portable as hardware demands allow. Complex code running with simple data will always be problematic; simple code with sophisticated data can easily accomplish the same things and can be simple to fully test. I don't consider obfuscated code to be superior in any sense; if it's really that time-critical that the compiler doesn't do the job from normal code, I'll use assembler and guarantee it's right. And my rant here is against the arrogance of those of you who consider "superior skill" in C to be hack code. I am forced to wonder about those who disdain programming skill - in favor of what? -- #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