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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: RC Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 246934046 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: clanchy.demon.co.uk [158.152.48.37] References: <338CDA96.53EA@halcyon.com> <338F5D7D.6C03@tiac.net> <338F9D05.5EB3@bix.com> <5mqpj3$bc5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> <5mv984$7kn@news.emi.com> <33961528.2A9A@sprintmail.com> <9706052229.AA29554@jaguar.nmc.ed.ray.com> <3398E102.54CF@sprintmail.com> Organization: Clanchy Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <3398E102.54CF@sprintmail.com> by "John G. Volan" >> Abstractions are language independent. So is programmer skill. >Not in my experience. For better or worse, each language has an attached >culture that influences the quality of the engineers trained to program >in it. I've found that programmers with Ada experience were generally >better abstractionists than those with C experience. I would trust an >Ada programmer programming in C much farther than a C programmer trying >to program in Ada. Seems reasonable. I have no statistical evidence but presumably, an Ada programmer tends to be proud of the readability of his software and attempts to write his C in a similar style. As hard as a one line C program fan tries, his Ada code must be inherently more accessible than his prior equivalent C program. So the C world stands to gain from the influence of Ada programmers and C programmers are unlikely to do that much damage to the Ada world. Anyone who can do it in C it should have no trouble in Ada. RC1