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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: <4ges3t$mca@qualcomm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140384551 references: <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> organization: QUalcomm Inc. reply-to: x!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!usenet newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) says: > >In article <4gb4r3$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. >-- Does one really need to be a guru in both languages to observe that one is more readable than the other? I was not talking about a comprehensive comparison. I was only talking about the readability (sp?) aspect of the languages. Nasser