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: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <63d3ad$ap7$2@darla.visi.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286210594 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <63anc7$75p$1@darla.visi.com> <345A50BE.74A9@le.ac.uk> X-Complaints-To: news@visi.com X-Trace: darla.visi.com 878317709 11047 205.166.146.1 (31 Oct 1997 17:08:29 GMT) Organization: Plethora Internet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <345A50BE.74A9@le.ac.uk>, Dr E. Buxbaum wrote: >Peter Seebach wrote: >> If >> you want to use compilers for similar languaes, and complain about the >> portability of C, we get to taunt you about every implementation that's >> ever claimed to be similar to Ada, too. >You won't have much luck there. There is an extensive validation suite >which Ada compilers have to pass. Remember, Ada is a US goverment >invention to make sure that different maschines can run the same >programs. If you have a validated Ada compiler, you can be reasonable >sure that it will compile a correct Ada program out of the box and that >the compiled program will perform the same way as on the maschine it was >written on. I personally know of only one other language for which that >is true: TeX. Yes, but will an Ada 83 compiler handle all Ada 95 programs correctly? If not, then why is an Ada advocate complaining about C78 implementations not agreeing with C89 implementations? (I don't normally have trouble with Ada advocates; most of the people I meet who use Ada are quite rational. But sometimes, you get people who blame standard C for all the failings of pre-standard C.) -s -- seebs@plethora.net -- Speaking for myself. No spam please. Copyright 1997. All rights reserved. This was not written by my cat. C/Unix wizard - send mail for help! -- - More Net, Less Spam!