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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Martin A. Stembel" Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/03 Message-ID: <3393DE82.154456D2@iquest.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245831562 References: <338CDA96.53EA@halcyon.com> <338F5D7D.6C03@tiac.net> <338F9D05.5EB3@bix.com> <5mqpj3$bc5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> <5mv984$7kn@news.emi.com> Organization: IQuest Internet, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jesse Johnson wrote: > > I came into this thread late, so I'm sorry if this has already been > said. Ada was designed by the DOD as a systems programming language > for embedded systems in military vehicles, while C was designed as an > application programming language to be run on top of systems. This I always thought K&R came up with C for systems programming...Unix comes to mind... > makes Ada inherently better suited for robot programming. However, Well now, that all depends on the characteristics of OS/Kernel on which your run-time was implemented. Ada on SCO Unix would definately not be inherently better suited for closing a position loop than another language running on OS-9 or LynxOS. All other things being equal, I'ld probably choose Ada because I have more experience with it. Generally though, I've found that a good programmer can write quality code in any language, and the bad ones will muck things up no matter how much the language tries to hold their hand. > for someone like me who has done a number of years of application > programming and is now trying robotics, it's easier to use C because I > already know it. > > Jesse Johnson > jejo@empireone.net