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: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/16 Message-ID: <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168534911 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rgqp7$iv6@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rvr2j$2gb0@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> 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: 1996-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:19:02 -0400, Tim McGuire wrote: >If assembly is just as easy as high-level languages, why were high-level >languages created??? Because the number of lines of code per day per programmer is fairly constant regardless of language. Using high-level languages allows programmer to produce more software in a given period. What I said is that it's as easy to write high-quality software in assembler as it is in any language. It's not the language that's the problem. It's the programmer. A high-quality programmer will turn out high-quality code regardless of the language, and a poor programmer will turn out poor quality code no matter how hard the language tries to prevent him. It's a matter of choice, I suppose. Some people like their language to protect them, I don't. I believe that a protective language can lead to sloppier code because the programmer comes to trust the compiler to catch sloppy mistakes; I've seen it happen. That's why I prefer spectacular failures (e.g., core dumps) to quiet ones (error message on exit that the program erroneously wrote on memory). -- #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