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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bd45e29f9dafca87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alexander Van Hecke Subject: Re: bitwise comparators Date: 2000/01/17 Message-ID: <38834F16.FE5DE77F@hotmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573819165 Cache-Post-Path: marvin!root@tvd-10-67-20-018.tvd.kotnet.kuleuven.ac.be Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3880D375.7E363123@hotmail.com> <38829638.0@news.pacifier.com> <3882FC1C.2BA8C959@hotmail.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 948129657 16077 134.58.127.3 (17 Jan 2000 17:20:57 GMT) Organization: KULeuvenNet X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jan 2000 17:20:57 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-17T17:20:57+00:00 List-Id: Mike Silva wrote: > Since by your tone I think this is a genuine question and not a stinkbomb, it was a genuine question :-) > > here's an off-the-cuff list of Ada features I find "more powerful" than C > (my primary language): > > Strong typing > Multitasking > Generics > Tagged Types > Packages > Exceptions > Discriminants > Arrays indexed over arbitrary ranges, including enumerations > Much greater control over variable range and representation > Runtime error checking I'm not sure why you think these features are more _powerful_ than in C. I'd label these features as more _advanced_. C is an old language (allthough I'm not sure at all about Ada), but nearly all those things you sum up are _possible_ in C, maybe they're not as easy as in Ada and require the programmer to explicitly program them (which may take a lot of code), but they're possible. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make Ada look bad here, but I think my previous statement stands : suppose you have no previous programming experience whatsoever, I think that C is a lot easier to learn than Ada is. I'd say that Ada is a more advanced language (i.e. has more advanced features), as there are many languages that are more advanced than C. Again, I'm not trying to start a heavy discussion here about C versus Ada. I was just wondering what you all thought about it. I want to emphasize here that my experience with Ada is _very_ limited (and probably will stay that way, I'm using it now for an exercise I have to make - I'm a final year student computer science). I must admit, I was curious about the possibilities of Ada :-) greetings, alex