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: Craig Franck Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/10 Message-ID: <4uj42h$j06@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173421902 references: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4s4adc$l4a@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> <4ss8ru$3d4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <31F28DBD.2A1D@harris.com> <31f3c52e.238719470 <4tnoeh$qjr@maverick.tad.eds.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: AT&T WorldNet Services mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22ATT (Windows; U; 16bit) Date: 1996-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > C++ and C are probably fine for certain classes of problems, but they > are certainly archaic when compared to the progress being made in > the world of programming languages. And I do not refer only to Ada in > that last sentence. Eiffel also comes to mind as a preferred > alternative to C++. I agree with that, if you include PC programming as "a certain class of problems". Most PC OS's are written in C/C++. It makes sense that applications would then be coded in C/C++ as well. Pascal has more support than Ada does in this area. I don't know of a vendor supporting those platforms in Ada as well as is done with C/C++. So you go with C/C++ due to the quality of the impementation, not the language. I would also like to point out that technical superiority is not always a good indicator of success. Even if Ada is "better" than C++ that does not indicate it will replace it in area's where C/C++ is now domanant. Realize it's much easier get a C compiler up and running for an embedded system that it is an Ada compiler. To even call it an Ada compiler it must pass a validation suite. The problem information systems managers have is today you must incorporate PC users. Why develope a schizophrenic additute of doing one with the domant tool (C/C++) and the other with Ada? I can see keeping working in COBOL, but if you were to switch, switch to C++. I don't think AT&T is going to start coding thier switching systems in Ada just because it a better language, either. > Today's C++ software is tomorrow's legacy system. > Doubtfull, very doubtfull -- Craig ----- clfranck@worldnet.att.net Manchester, NH There are no electrons...