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From: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/20
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Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com>, pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) says:
>
>In article <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk>, chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk says...
>>
>>With regards to maintenance, there's many people out there who consider 
>>C/C++ a Write only language.
>
>How many of the people who say this have actually used C++ enough to 
>understand it? I know it's popular today to dump on C++, but my experience has 
>been that most of the people who produce one-liners like this simply don't 
>know what they're talking about. If relying on that sort of ignorance is the 
>best you can do to defend ADA, so be it. But I'll bet that if you try you can 
>come up with arguments that are actually based on fact. Those would lead to a 
>much more interesting and useful discussion.
>

Given 2 equally good programmers one in C++ and one in Ada, most 
people will agree that Ada code is easier to read than the C++ code.

(Ada is sometimes used to write algorithm in becuase of its clarity,
even though the actual algorithm will be coded in another language).

I have been programming officialy for about 13 years now, and 
programmed in about 7-8 languages an average of 1-3 years each, and 
I can say that I found Pascal and Ada code the easist to read, 
followed by FORTRAN and PLI followed by SNOBOL followed by C/C++ and 
LISP and BLISS and finally assembler.

A code that is easier to read, is easier to maintain.

Nasser