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From: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada ... NOT!!
Date: 1996/07/08
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Date: 1996-07-08T00:00:00+00:00
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>kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote:
>>
>> I do the same in C.  The problem is that Ada won't *let* you use your superior
>> skill, i.e., nothing is gained by it.  For someone who knows what they're
>> doing, it's just as easy to write good, clean, safe code in C (or assembly, or
>> *any* language) as it is in Ada.
>
> There are always ways of getting around Ada restrictions
>                 [...]
>                                            I get very impatient with
> people who complain about the compiler taking away their freedom to be
> creative etc. This is a prima donna attitude. If I'm sitting on a plane
> controlled by a software fly-by-wire system, I want it to be solidly
> engineered by competent developers who use all appropriate tools, not
> "created" by software "wizards"!

Ah -- this reminds me of another old saying in aviation -- "There are old
pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots."

In article <4rqhgj$1l1g@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:

> me too. I am curious how many more in CLA fly (and especially aerobatics)

I do, although no aerobatics (well, except once...)

-- Frank Manning