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_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Time to join the fold? Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: <36aa3d6c.1295179@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 436112844 References: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 917126884 207.214.211.2 (Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:28:04 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:28:04 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >However, there's a huge payoff, because once you do get something to >compile, there are going to be far fewer bugs in the compiled program. I like to think of a C compiler as being like a 2nd grade teacher. Lots of encouragement. An Ada compiler is more like 4th grade - more criticism, but useful criticism. Mostly the Ada compiler catches dumb mistakes, many of which C would have let pass, but sometimes Ada says "you can't do this" about something basic in your approach - and on re-thinking, you realize your approach was indeed flawed. >Nothing beats the interaction of programmer and compiler. Boss and knowledgeable assistant in the case of Ada, vs C's master and dumb slave.