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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-02 11:15:11 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Message-ID: Organization: Software Engineering Research Department References: <3blinp$8dm@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 16:50:00 GMT Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8193 comp.lang.c:33048 comp.programming:5570 comp.lang.c++:39290 comp.object:9330 Date: 1994-12-02T16:50:00+00:00 List-Id: In article smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin) writes: > dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > > What is for sure is that most students coming out of universities are > > woefully unequipped for writing serious, realiable software. THe idea > > that knowing how to hack around in C or Basic (or any other language > > for that matter) has anything to do with serious software engineering > > only goes to show the lack of awareness. > I don't think it appropriate to knock on C (or Basic, but bleck ;-). I don't think he is. Why do you think so? -- --Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com