Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language

[Les Cargill <lcargill@worldnet.att.net>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.ada.]
> On 2004-02-06, Les Cargill <lcargill@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >
> > 'C' is a right-regular language, with good orthogonality of
> > operators. That literally means "easy to read" - or at least
> > having the capacity to be writrten in a fashion that is easy
> > to read.
> 
> This is simply not true. How come there are so many buffer overflow
> security problems then?

Because people didn't defend properly against them. That has
nothing to do with the grammar of the language.

> However, let us not start a language war again
> (as usually happens each time somebody crosspost between several
> language newsgroups).
> 
> > If you've ever seen any deep Perl code, you'd understand :)
> 
> And if you had seen Ada95 code you would understand that C[++] isn't
> readable.  Especially with huge projects.
>

I've seen some fair sized 'C' and C++ projects. They are readable - 
to 'C'/C++ programmers.

I'd have loved to have used Ada, but there never was much call for
it. 
  
> --
> "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
>  language."


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Les Cargill