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=3.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:26818 comp.lang.ada:3427 comp.software-eng:3155 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: A Poor Man's Ada Library Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 90 13:04:06 GMT References: <19452@grebyn.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng Organization: Xenix Support, FICC List-Id: Thank you for an informative article, but don't you think it would have been better to redirect followups to the groups in which a discussion of Ada might be appropriate, rather than the one group for which it clearly isn't? The Ada versus C war was amusing in it's time, but that time is now long past. In an attempt to provide a little information, now, here's a couple of quotes from Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, whose Turing Award speech was directed at the Ada language: "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C. A. R. Hoare "Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti- ballistic missle defense systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a far greater risk to our environment and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or accidents at nuclear power stations." - C. A. R. Hoare -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v