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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/06/30 Message-ID: <4r573p$1sf@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162894754 references: <4q8fbo$701@red.interact.net.au> <31d5bbbb.161236846@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) writes: >C is better than Ada, because it doesn't pretend it knows more about >programming than I do, and doesn't prevent me from doing those things that are >upon rare occasion necessary. This is a very persistent rumour, but I have yet to see any evidence for it. As far as I am aware, it's quite possible to do all those things you can do in C in Ada too. >Programming is C is like shaving with a razor; >as long as I know what I'm doing, there's no problem. Programming in Ada is >like using a shaver; it 'protects' the incompetent and is no help to the >experts. There's a fundamental difference between software engineering and shaving: shaving is a solitary activity, but software engineering is generally not. If you were shaving *my* face, I'd rather you not use a razor! -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.