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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: <4gel3b$1hku@saba.info.ucla.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140381537 references: <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> organization: University of California, Los Angeles newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes: >In article <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> x!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!usenet writes: >> 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. >Most? I have yet to meet anyone who knows both Ada and C++ >well enough to be able to make a reasoned comparison. >-- > --Andrew Koenig > ark@research.att.com Baah! What you really saying is that you have not met any Ada people. I know both (well Ada83 and some of the new features of Ada95). I have been using only C++ for the last few years. And anyone with a basic understanding of imperative software engineering language design will acknowledge that Ada has better readability characteristics over C/C++. (Unfortunately, what CS program actually teaches,researches or cares about imperative computer language design?) Ada was designed for readability, C (and C++) was designed for hacking in an evolutionary manner. Just read "Evolution...C++" when BS starts talking about brain damaged or broken features or "too cute for its own good" or "the anti-keyword militia" or "backwards (philosophic) compatibility", its a good indication of a place where readability/understandability suffered in C++. Jay