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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 06:42:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> <3B6588FC.6D40C443@sneakemail.com> <87snfe9sir.fsf@520075220525-0001.dialin.t-online.de> <3B67F0DA.8D655109@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:41:58 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:41:58 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10940 Date: 2001-08-01T13:41:58+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B67F0DA.8D655109@mindspring.com>, Larry Hazel says... > >a couple of sheets of paper. Once I learned Ada, I never had any problem >writing such programs in Ada. It's quick and easy and usually does exactly >what I want the first time. I could never do that in C, but then I don't know >C very well. I know just enough to know I don't want to use it. Almost any >language can be used to quickly "hack" out a small program, but you have to >know the language. I'd agree with the last sentece of that, but not the stuff in the middle. I've found that C is actually quite servicable for very small programs (eg: a one source file, < 2000 SLOC or so mini-compiler I had to write). Its real problem is that it just doesn't scale well at all. For a similar but larger task (eg: a >10,000SLOC multi-file programming language compiler for a grad course) it begins to become an absolute nightmare; a veritable cornucopia of core dumps, if you will. :-) However, there really isn't any problem with Ada for very small programs either, and it *does* scale well. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com