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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,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: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/21 Message-ID: <344D3EDF.EB@dynamite.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 282159108 References: <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <877355167snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> Organization: @home Reply-To: aebrain@dynamite.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lawrence Kirby wrote: > >Hence my preference for Ada. When listening to C weenies - er - > >enthusiasts talking about how their code is so tight, so efficient, and > >above all so impenetrable that it's obviously superior to another > >solution (in Ada so clear that "Any Fool could have written that"), I > >have to take a dried-frog pill and count to 10. > > I don't know what sort of C programmers you talk to but that is *not* > the sort of approach advocated on comp.lang.c. Here we're interested > in code that is portable and clear. Optimisation is only a secondary > issue, the most important aspect of that is choosing the right > algorithm. I've noticed that often the type of views espoused on comp.lang.c are, if I may say so, both highly professional and alas, atypical. At least in my experience (in 3 continents and 4 companies). -- aebrain@dynamite.com.au <> <> How doth the little Crocodile | Alan & Carmel Brain| xxxxx Improve his shining tail? | Canberra Australia | xxxxxHxHxxxxxx _MMMMMMMMM_MMMMMMMMM abrain@cs.adfa.oz.au o OO*O^^^^O*OO o oo oo oo oo By pulling MAERKLIN Wagons, in 1/220 Scale