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: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,bab58563a24f525a X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Corvus Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <369D237D.204368E4@GoAway.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432309173 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: typhoon.mbnet.mb.ca 916268025 206.45.228.218 (Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:53:45 CDT) Organization: MBnet Networking Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:53:45 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter wrote: > > In article , "Erik Funkenbusch" > wrote: > > > >- lead to easily maintainable code > > > > No language will do that. It's a function of design. > > It is a function of the programming language though. To take an extreme > example, most programmers don't find programs written in machine language > to be particularly maintainable for large projects compared to programs > written high-level programming languages. But even comparing high-level Actually I find machine code easier to maintain and understand in small projects...Even tho' Machine Code isn't used anymore, I still like to open up Debug once in a while and see what I can accomplish... > > > > >- promote safe programming techniques > > > > Be aware that "safe" often means "confining". You may not be able to do the > > things you need to do in a language that doesn't support pointers > > Safe often means unconfining too. For example, having references instead > of pointers is unconfining because you don't have to worry about pointer > errors (one of the leading cause of errors in C and C++ programs) > corrupting the state of your program. You shouldn't equate lack pointers > in a language with limitations in Java's functionality. Other languages > without pointers are very powerful. -- This is my .SIG file. Enjoy.