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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,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: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public From: Vladyslav Kosulin Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <36A3B008.9C116AAF@kharkov.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434186159 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369C4F71.72E62F8E@GoAway.com> <01be3f41$c1205ba0$5704fbd1@longslide> <369e7209.675138@news.mindspring.com> X-Accept-Language: ru,uk,en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Organization: Vladislav Ltd Mime-Version: 1.0 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: 1999-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tom Maier wrote: > > "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!". > That's the problem of this programmer and his co-workers, not of language. -- Sincerely yours, Vladyslav Kosulin, Kharkiv, Ukraine (vlad@kharkov.com)