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: Alan Brain Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/01 Message-ID: <4tqlb0$be02@red.interact.net.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171425277 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31EE19D1.6977@lfwc.lockheed.com> <31efe069.63062188@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4sopkp$dao@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <31F613F3.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <01bb7bf9$b89a1740$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <01bb7da5$ef97cf00$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <31fff06f.186046460@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: At Home mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c x-mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Date: 1996-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote: >Curious. It's that's same commitment to C from former Ada programmers that >makes me so leery of Ada. Especially since these are all people whom I >consider to be good programmers (not a distinction I give lightly). Really? I'm flabbergasted. In 15 years I've never met a single person who, after programming in Ada for more than 6 months, preferred programming in C. I've met people who dabbled in Ada, didn't like it; and people who just couldn't handle data abstraction and programming-in-the-large. But never anyone who was taught to use it, practiced using it. The original poster is in Germany, and a lot of my experience ( about half ) occurred there, at SystemTeknikNord and Atlas Elektronik GmbH.