Re: Any research putting c above ada?

[NKSW39B@prodigy.com (Matthew Givens)]

amd001@its.maynick.com.au (Andrew Dunstan) wrote:
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>This is a worrying statement. If you are a skilled programmer, you
>would pick up languages like a sponge and not be worried about small
>things like syntax. If you think you are highly proficient in C but
>only moderately skilled in Ada, either you have not done enough Ada or
>you are not thinking about things at an appropriate level ... most of
>your thought should be at a language independent level.

You don't really think that, do you?  Of all the programmers I know, none 
of them are equally skilled/comfortable in all the languages they know, 
amount of experience with each taken into consideration.  Again, that's 
because one (or more) is naturally easier for them to handle.  Can I 
program in Ada?  Yes, but not with the same ease that I can in C.

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>If you work on a large software project, this is a recipe for
>disaster. You can't just let programmers "do the thing that fits them
>temperamentally". There must be standards etc. After all, the major
>cost in most large s/w projects is not in initial coding but in
>maintenance. This is where Ada shines - it is aimed at being easily
>maintainable, easier on the reader at the cost of a little more trouble
>to the writer. That's why many proigrammers hate it, of course, but is
>the very reason that many more managers should love it.

I never said anything about ignoring standards.  In fact, I always 
program to a set of standards, some of them industry and some of them 
mine.  But what does that have to do with the fact that many programmers 
work better in one language than another?


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