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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,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: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/20 Message-ID: <877355167snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 282703780 References: <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> X-Mail2News-User: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: genesis.demon.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 877356550 4775 fred genesis.demon.co.uk Organization: none Reply-To: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> aebrain@dynamite.com.au "Alan E & Carmel J Brain" writes: ... >Hence my preference for Ada. When listening to C weenies - er - >enthusiasts talking about how their code is so tight, so efficient, and >above all so impenetrable that it's obviously superior to another >solution (in Ada so clear that "Any Fool could have written that"), I >have to take a dried-frog pill and count to 10. I don't know what sort of C programmers you talk to but that is *not* the sort of approach advocated on comp.lang.c. Here we're interested in code that is portable and clear. Optimisation is only a secondary issue, the most important aspect of that is choosing the right algorithm. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------