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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56ca6b335f8f1262 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-08-31 12:10:40 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!supernews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: mjsilva@my-deja.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Trouble with UNIX IPC and Ada95 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:03:29 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. Message-ID: <8oma5h$68l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <8olqhe$hsv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39AE7960.D6622FD4@earthlink.net> <8om5tn$q0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.169.137.75 X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Aug 31 19:03:29 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x73.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 206.169.137.75 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDmjsilva Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:444 Date: 2000-08-31T19:03:29+00:00 List-Id: In article <8om5tn$q0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, wv12@my-deja.com wrote: > > > > > > "trust C"? That's not exactly the question. If the program is > properly > > designed in nearly any programming language, then it will work > properly. > > The problem is that it's more difficult to properly design a program > in C > > than in some other languages. > Apparently this is not the case. Twenty years after IBM launches the > IBM PC, you see a myriads of operating systems written in C: MINIX, > XINU, Linux, XENIX, FreeBSD, etc... I haven't seen anything in Ada > on any PC that provides half the functionality of DOS. Maybe there > is a language that makes OS design become a walk in the park. That > language is not Ada. You have quite a bee in your bonnet regarding Ada, haven't you? Your reply totally avoids responding to the assertion. If you claim the opposite, that it is *no* more difficult to properly design a program in C than in *any* other language, then you've staked out a very lonely and unsupported position. Are you aware that "When Bell Labs were invited to evaluate C against the DoD requirements, they said that there was no chance of C meeting the requirements of readability, safety, etc., for which we were striving, and that it should not even be on the list of evaluated languages"? (from "Ada - The Project, The DoD High Order Language Working Group") Maybe a few years down the road you'll finally get tired of chasing down the C bugs that other languages (including Ada) would have caught, and stop looking at C through rose-colored glasses. Mike Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.