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: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169510125 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> 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: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 19 Jul 1996 13:02:33 -0700, rorou@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca (Richard O'Rourke) wrote: >>Essentially, yes. I prefer an environment that doesn't make it easy for code >>to work by accident. > >AHA! Exactly what Ada gives you and C does NOT!. An environment, not a language. The tools available do a sufficient job for me. Let me back off one thing, though. I don't mean to say that C is "superior" to ADA; I'd have to be an expert at both, not just one to actually have an opinion. What I mean is that I like C, and I don't like ADA; so for me, C is "better". (BTW, I just wrote the embedded code for the Telemetry Control Unit on the Cassini Spacecraft, in C of course, in well under 8K or ROM. Is it possible to generate a stand-alone ADA program that will run in that space?) I'll further point out that on the Cassini craft, from all I've heard, the software developed in ADA is behind schedule and functionally deficient. -- #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