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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!GE-CRD.ARPA!blackje%sungod.tcpip From: blackje%sungod.tcpip@GE-CRD.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA Message-ID: <8708252017.AA27832@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 16:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8708252017.AA27832 Posted: Tue Aug 25 16:44:00 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 01:39:25 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet List-Id: Received: by sungod.steinmetz (3.2/1.1x Steinmetz) id AA02008; Tue, 25 Aug 87 10:19:48 EDT Date: Tue, 25 Aug 87 10:19:48 EDT From: emmett black Posted-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 87 10:19:48 EDT Message-Id: <8708251419.AA02008@sungod.steinmetz> To: info-ada@ada20.isi.edu 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