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: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/12 Message-ID: <66CBF8411CF32250.C0990BB07C686F38.BC9C30A521DA7C36@library-proxy.airnews.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240983613 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5k60au$gig@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5k88f8$387@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5ku5tj$9d9$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <5AB7287E9247441B.B61EDFD34B8F49B0.FCD25A82E03921C6@library-proxy.airnews.net> <0313A6944836C48E.193DB760B2AB7789.7A79EA9ECF40F6E3@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5l3lct$22ge@uni.library.ucla.edu> X-Orig-Message-ID: <337689fc.1729093@news.airmail.net> Organization: INTERNET AMERICA NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) wrote: >clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) writes: > >>If I were the student, I would be upset too. Anyone, particularly a CS >>professsor, who provides software to automate assignment submission should >>have the sense to provide a warning before deleting old information. >>I wonder if the student was even informed that he should read the manual. >>In all seriousness, I feel sorry for Mr. Eachus students. I don't think Mr. >>Eachus would be very happy if he were told that a file he accidental deleted >>while working at Mitre was unrecoverable because no backups were made. > >Right. User unfriendly and dangerous software is sewage. Pretty much >a fundemental rule of good software design. In the real world, tons >of people don't read manuals and make mistakes. Unfortunately, due to >the massive incompetence in this field, macho and arcane "hacker >priest" software like Unix and C have been glorified while user >friendly and safer software and languages have been denegrated. No other system I have ever worked on comes close to UNIX in providing a productive environment for software development, and I have worked on quite a few. Other systems are easier for casual users, but none provide the flexibility of UNIX.