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: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: <31efe0ce.63162392@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168912276 references: <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4slkrn$ofc@zeus.orl.mmc.com> 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: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 18 Jul 1996 15:22:31 GMT, rgilbert@unconfigured.xvnews.domain (Bob Gilbert) wrote: >Productivity is only one issue. One must also consider portability and >readability. The main reasons to avoid assembly language, especially the latter. In some senses, it's more important for a program to be readable/maintainable than to actually work. -- #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