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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-16 10:15:48 PST Message-ID: <3DFE1770.3050401@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <3DF1B042.6603DDDE@easystreet.com> <3DF2A483.EC512CDF@adaworks.com> <8db3d6c8.0212091445.12594821@posting.google.com> <3DF628C4.7090607@cogeco.ca> <3DF6653D.3030603@cogeco.ca> <8db3d6c8.0212101850.51506572@posting.google.com> <3DF8D33F.9020205@cogeco.ca> <3DFA1BB8.1050303@cogeco.ca> <3DFA5603.2030009@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:12:00 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1040062320 198.96.47.195 (Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:12:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:12:00 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31900 Date: 2002-12-16T13:12:00-05:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: >>> I feel the same way, _but_ what I was saying is that >>> potential "converts" try to compile something five or six >>> times and then go back to C. They never find out about >>> how it prevents errors down the road, because they back up >>> and take the other road. >> >> Yet, many of them forget about the same experience they had when >> they were first learning C ;-) > > They didn't have that experience when they were > first learning C. C doesn't complain when you > assign a char to a bool or a bool to an int. > Nor does C complain when you use an assignment > for a conditional or vice versa. Nor does a > C compiler tell you it's illegal to use 100 for > an index when the array ends at 10. et cetera Of course. That was understood. But anyone learning a new language struggles with the compiler at first. That was the point I was making (granted that C is much more forgiving also). -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg