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: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: sminstruments@mindspring.com (Tom Maier) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/14 Message-ID: <369e7209.675138@news.mindspring.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432747140 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369C4F71.72E62F8E@GoAway.com> <01be3f41$c1205ba0$5704fbd1@longslide> X-Server-Date: 14 Jan 1999 23:28:26 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Reply-To: sminstruments@mindspring.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-14T23:28:26+00:00 List-Id: "Craig Garrett" wrote: >> well...I prefer C++ as it's easily maintainable > >I beg to differ. Yes, C++ can be maintainable, but only if it was written >EXTREMELY well, by very disciplined programmers who intended it to be >maintainable. Now, any language, including Ada, can result in hard to >read, bad code, but, I have seen alot more bad C/C++ than I have bad Ada. > I worked together with another programmer, both of us doing the same program in Ada. He never put any comments in so I ask him to start. His reply was "But this is a self documenting language!". ARRRGGH! Like you say, a mess can be made in any language. Ocassionally I demonstrate this by doing it myself. Tom