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: 103376,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-06 08:23:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4023C090.152C7E08@worldnet.att.net> From: Les Cargill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language References: <4022F87C.BFC600CC@worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:23:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.74.246.144 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1076084618 12.74.246.144 (Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:23:38 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:23:38 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5286 Date: 2004-02-06T16:23:38+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.ada.] > On 2004-02-06, Les Cargill 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." -- Les Cargill