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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/10 Message-ID: <860706551snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 232232028 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> X-Mail2News-User: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: tsys.demon.co.uk Organization: Adventures and Diving Reply-To: tw104@york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article rich@kastle.com "Richard Krehbiel" writes: > kgoldin@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Konstantin B. Goldin) writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there any research out there, that, comparing c and ada, (or c++ and > > ada), gives advantage to the c side? > > Here's a bit of research you can do yourself. > > Can you go to the computer store and buy Microsoft Visual Ada 5.0? > Borland Turbo Ada? Watcom Ada 4.0? Can you find *anybody's* Ada > compiler at the local Comp USA store? No. Although I want to stay neutral in this discussion, the above argument is the most facile I have seen for quite some time. Can you buy `gcc' in CompUSA? I should think that for a lot of people, `gcc' vs. `gnat' would be a better comparison. (even though they are really more similar than you might think :-) -- :sb)