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From: info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Subtle Bugs, kudos Ada (was How Ada ...Red Code ...)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:42:58 GMT
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"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:

> From one of the first books about C by K&R:
> "C was designed on the assumption that the programmer is someone sensible who knows what he's doing"
> 
> From the introduction of the Ada Reference Manual:
> "Ada was designed with the concern of programming as a human activity"
> 
> The fact that these starting hypothesis lead to two completely different philosophies
> of languages is left as a subject for meditation...

<troll level="quite high>

The conclusion is obvious. C was designed for professionals; Ada for
amateurs.

</troll>

<nasty g>

Richard