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: 1996/08/02 Message-ID: <32023504.79077447@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171589008 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> <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <31F613F3.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <01bb7bf9$b89a1740$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <01bb7da5$ef97cf00$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <31fff06f.186046460@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4tqlb0$be02@red.interact.net.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Speaking only for Myself mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 1 Aug 1996 16:17:36 GMT, Alan Brain wrote: >kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote: > >>Curious. It's that's same commitment to C from former Ada programmers that >>makes me so leery of Ada. >Really? I'm flabbergasted. In 15 years I've never met a single person who, after >programming in Ada for more than 6 months, preferred programming in C. We must live on opposite sides of the mirror. There's one in my office, one next door, and several down the hall. Some of these people changed divisions to get away from Ada (after finishing a large project). -- #include _ 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