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: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/10 Message-ID: <4s0ahc$ot2@solutions.solon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 167572235 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) reply-to: seebs@solon.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Stephen M O'Shaughnessy wrote: >In article <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>, >kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov says... >> 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. >No it is not. It is *possible* in any language, but not *just as easy*. If >that were true, then all languages would be the same. They are not. Nonsense. The differences between languages have primarily to do with what tasks they're good for, and what tasks are easy to express in them, not with cleanliness or safety. I'm not sure I agree that it's as easy to write safe code in C as in any other language. But if it were, that would not make those languages the same; in all probability, the other one would not be as convenient for system level programming, and C would not be as convenient for high level programming. -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 - http://www.solon.com/~seebs Unix/C Wizard - send mail for help, or send money for consulting! The *other* C FAQ, the hacker FAQ, et al. See web page above. Unsolicited email (junk mail and ads) is unwelcome, and will be billed for.