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: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/28 Message-ID: <5003ps$ir4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176881373 references: <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> <4uj42h$j06@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4um1l9$klq@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4ur9ii$7r4@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4ur9ii$7r4@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Craig Franck writes: |> ... I have been told that what killed ALGOL was not ALGOL-68, |> but the fact that IBM gave you a FORTRAN compiler(o.k if they |> didn't give it to you with the computer, they still had one) and |> getting an ALGOL compiler was more work. The biggest factor in killing Algol was that the 1960 "standard" didn't specify I/O -- Algol, like Ada, but unlike Fortran or COBOL, has no I/O "statements." Unlike Ada, however, the "Report on the programming language Algol" also failed to specify a standard I/O library interface. -- What fraction of Americans believe | Van Snyder Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? | vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov