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=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,57fce830b93ce520,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-11 22:05:03 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!COMPUSERVE.COM!73672.2025 Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <941012030624_73672.2025_DHR50-1@CompuServe.COM> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 23:06:24 EDT Sender: Ada programming language From: Ken Garlington <73672.2025@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Re: Easily-Read C++ Comments: To: "comp.lang.ada" Date: 1994-10-11T23:06:24-04:00 List-Id: Fred McCall writes: << Most of us don't expect people to understand what we write unless they speak the language, not to mention that only trivial Ada programs are so easily read and understood. >> Wrong on both counts. I want people with very little language training or even software engineering training (if any) to quickly understand the algorithms and data structures I'm defining. This includes hardware engineers, system test engineers, IIV&V, SQA, System Safety, etc. I want them to be able to understand those programs, even if they are 50K source lines of code or more. Ada works very well for this purpose. Does C++? Sounds like it's a non-issue, since C++ programmers only write for themselves and their fellow programmers.