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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171471993 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <31fff06f.186046460@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) writes: > On 31 Jul 96 10:36:37 GMT, dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk > Dickmanns) wrote: > > >What made me looking at Ada was > >the extreme commitment to Ada of people using C before... think about > >it. > > Curious. It's that's same commitment to C from former Ada programmers that > makes me so leery of Ada. Especially since these are all people whom I > consider to be good programmers (not a distinction I give lightly). Just goes to show that anecdotal evidence is typically not a very good guide. Again, about the only real hard objective investigation into this issue (language comparison) was done by Verdix/Rational over a several year time frame comparing Ada and C as used on many different projects by highly qualified people. They aquired a lot of data and did a good job of analysis. Anyone who wants at least _some_ "hard" data on this issue should read that report: http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/docs/reports/cada/cada_art.html /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com