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: fd6dd,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/07/17 Message-ID: <33CE6F35.18DB@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 257568658 References: <338CDA96.53EA@halcyon.com> <33A5D644.37A3@epix.net> <33A839AF.2C7F@lmco.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.robotics.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Garlington wrote: > > > Again, let's see the C. Real code. Ask your colleague to show us some > > C code (for a device driver, or part of one, for example), and let's see > > whether Ada is up to the job. I will freely admit that Ada has many > > flaws, but the above series of incorrect claims about Ada doesn't help. > > Let's do the opposite: Write an assembly program that can't be coded in > C (or other high-order language), and use that to show that we must all > code in assembly. How about: Do a ones-and-zeros ripple test > of all of memory, including the stack and heap. As a sidelight, I was once tasked with improving the performance of a service routine written in Intel assembly language; my replacement version was in Ada and was dramatically faster. This doesn't prove that Ada is more efficient than assembly language, but rather that there is a lot more to efficiency than just the choice of language. > -- > LMTAS - The Fighter Enterprise - "Our Brand Means Quality" > Who uses Ada? See http://www.lmasc.lmco.com/f22 > For job listings, other info: http://www.lmtas.com or > http://www.lmco.com -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz.