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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,826cd690cb6a7585 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Address and bit mask Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:04:44 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <73c54ael5pmg$.1q7b8syf4aqbs.dlg@40tude.net> References: <71159ccc-bf20-4fcf-a7f1-3b90629c1ecb@l4g2000vbv.googlegroups.com> <87fwkk0zv7.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <2cbc5514-122b-4e8a-9ba0-a699e4f874ec@t5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <26a278ac-d8b7-4ec9-937b-e182a153ee56@o9g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> <4e5cdb24$0$7608$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: FbOMkhMtVLVmu7IwBnt1tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20745 Date: 2011-08-30T16:04:44+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:44:20 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > On 30.08.11 12:58, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > >> C is a *bad* language. > > Please don't say C is a bad language. It isn't, in many ways. > > It *does* require very good and very careful programmers; > alas, more of these than think of themselves as being very > good and very careful. *This* is the bad thing. I see. Murder is not bad. That something dies is bad, not the deed itself. This kind of logic? C is bad (worse than the language X) simply because it is less suitable for programming (read: software developing). Of course, C might be good (better than X) for anything else, but that is irrelevant. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de