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From: Mike Stark <michael.e.stark@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/08/15
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Richard Riehle wrote:
> 
> Darrin Smith (fignet05.darrins@eds.com) wrote:
>   In article <Pine.GSO.3.92.960726122347.25896E-100000@nunic.nu.edu>,
>   rriehle@nunic.nu.edu says...
> 
><<snip>>
>   Darrin,
> 
>   I welcome your differing point-of-view but would prefer that
>   we not resort to pejoratives in discussing it, OK.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>   C++ and C are probably fine for certain classes of problems, but they
>   are certainly archaic when compared to the progress being made in
>   the world of programming languages. And I do not refer only to Ada in
>   that last sentence.  Eiffel also comes to mind as a preferred
>   alternative to C++.

..and IMHO Java is headed that way, although it currently lacks some
useful basics (like formatted text input & output) it is a much safer,
less complex language design, and it comes with the GUI library
provided by AWT.
> 
>   Today's C++ software is tomorrow's legacy system.
> 
>   Richard Riehle