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: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fignet05.darrins@eds.com (Darrin Smith) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/31 Message-ID: <4tnoeh$qjr@maverick.tad.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171228255 references: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4s4adc$l4a@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> <4ss8ru$3d4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <31F28DBD.2A1D@harris.com> <31f3c52e.238719470 content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: CUSD mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , rriehle@nunic.nu.edu says... [snip] > One of the most absurd things that MIS directors have done in the > past several years is try to convert their financial systems to C++. > It is far safer, and far more productive, to transition those early > COBOL applications to OOCOBOL than to move to something as inherently > unreliable as the C family of languages, including C++. How long have you been coding in C++? Although I might agree that it is more logical to go from COBOL to OOCOBOL (especially if your current development team knows COBOL), your comment about the C language is totally asinine. What makes C, or any other language unreliable anyway? It is not the language, but rather those who code it that makes the end product a reliable one. If anything, with C++ (as well as other OO languages) if you know your base classes work, then you're well on your way to developing MORE reliable software. [snip] > Of course, the ideal solution would be for these MIS managers to > effect that transition with Ada, but such perspicacity is probably > too much too expect. So OOCOBOL is at least a better alternative > than C++. Why Ada? Who has ever proven it to be better than COBOL for typical business apps? Darrin Smith