Re: Gratuitous bashing ?

[Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> O.K. I'll accept that story. However, that sounds more like Necessity being
> the Mother of Invention. (Or is it Necessity Is The Mother Of Futile Dodges
> :-) In either case, it doesn't sound like somebody said: "Since we have to
> program STBs, let's design a language that is suited to STB software
> development..." That seems different than "Lets use a subset of C because we
> are having trouble with full-up C...  Hey wait a minute! This is a new
> language!!!!"

I left out the part where they did add some OO features (with as little
true engineering as the rest of it).

I also left out my own observation that they did _not_ remove some bad
features of C because, being more experienced, they did not have as many
problems with those features.  They also removed _good_ features
"because
they are unsafe" which Ada and other languages had already proven can
be done safely.

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau