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From: NKSW39B@prodigy.com (Matthew Givens)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/05/04
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Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>It seems to me that all the arguments for C over Ada can be duplicated
>in
>any good Macro Assembler over C.
>
>Thus LDM =A,h10 is close to the machine level, terse, flexible (in
>assembler you can multiply floats by booleans! ) is as efficient as it
>can be, and by using the proper tools, can be made portable and safe.
>Obviously C is for wimps who can't hack Assembler, just as Ada is for
>wimps who can't hack C. Any language can be used. It's all a matter of
>opinion and what you're used to.  Real programmers would of course 
write
>03707 instead of that LDM guff (it's terser). Heck, the meaning of
>0011010010000101 is OBVIOUS to the meanest intelligence, and it tells
>you exactly which parts of the CPU are being used, and uses a reduced
>character set which an expert can use most efficiently!
>

Ahhhh, this is the tactic my wife uses sometimes.  Take what I say, 
amplify it until you've reached ridiculousness, then claim that's what I 
meant.

You did it well.  Not real well, but good enough.

However, I don't believe I ever said anything about Ada being for wimps 
who can't hack C.  You said that, not I.  I didn't even imply that.

But you'll never believe that, will you.  So, continue to battle truth 
with ridicule whenever possible.  It works, sometimes, so why not?

-
"What is the speed of dark?"
Matthew A. Givens