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From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/20
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Matthew Givens wrote:

> Of course not.  The thing to remember is that different languages fit
> different tasks, and different programmers are suited to different
> languages.  I am a highly proficient C programmer, but only a moderately
> skilled Ada programmer.  In fact, I often rough out algorythms in C
> before implementing them in the Ada version.  Why?  Because I don't have
> to think so much of the surface furnishings of Ada and can concentrate on
> just the functionality.  It would save a lot of time if I didn't have to
> write the Ada version, wouldn't it?

That's amazing. Because I do the design in Ada, before coding in C/C++.
I'm a skilled Ada-83 programmer, a tyro at -95, poor average at C (OK,
average average, the average is pretty p*ss poor IMHO) and a neophyte at
C++.

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