Re: "C" vrs ADA

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From: emmett black <blackje@sungod>
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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA


>In article <12513@clyde.ATT.COM>, spf@clyde.UUCP writes:
>> Learn them both.  C is the assembly language, and Ada the High Order
>> Language (HOL), of the next ten years in the DoD community.
>

I agree.. in fact, it was my observation (back when I had to 
manage [shudder] projects) that it was not appropriate to 
"trust" a programmer with a C compiler, if that programmer
could not be "trusted" with an ASSEMBLER.

...... ergo, C is the assembly language of choice.

--Emmett
	BlackJE@GE-CRD.ARPA