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: 1996/07/24 Message-ID: <31f6affa.4007141@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169970986 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> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31f4fa31.317828803@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31F6162E.446B9B3D@escmail.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: 1996-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:25:18 -0400, "Theodore E. Dennison" wrote: >Don't let that >initial annoyance prevent you from broadening your horizons. I started working with computers 38 years ago. The first ones were analog, then mechanical-digital, and finally electronic-digital. Not counting what you do to the first two of those as programming languages, I have been proficient in over 50 assemblers and 30 high-level languages. My horizons are sufficiently wide to evaluate other languages. > Once you start thinking in Ada terms, You shouldn't have to think in terms of the language. If you do, it's getting in your way and you should dump it. >I bet you'll even find all sorts of things about C that annoy you. I don't need Ada to find things I don't like about C; I can guarantee you I know more of its problems than you do. What I found from looking at Ada is that it has more and bigger problems, and is generally a less convenient tool. That's what I mean by getting in my way. -- #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