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: 1996/07/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170446572 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: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) writes: > >>Essentially, yes. I prefer an environment that doesn't make it easy > >for code >to work by accident. > > >AHA! Exactly what Ada gives you and C does NOT!. > > An environment, not a language. The tools available do a sufficient job for > me. A language is part of an "environment", so this is irrelevant. > Let me back off one thing, though. I don't mean to say that C is "superior" > to ADA; I'd have to be an expert at both, not just one to actually have an > opinion. What I mean is that I like C, and I don't like ADA; so for me, C is > "better". OK, whatever floats your boat. > (BTW, I just wrote the embedded code for the Telemetry Control Unit on the > Cassini Spacecraft, in C of course, in well under 8K or ROM. Is it possible > to generate a stand-alone ADA program that will run in that space?) Of course. Why would you think otherwise? > I'll further point out that on the Cassini craft, from all I've heard, the > software developed in ADA is behind schedule and functionally deficient. Yes, and third hand anecdotal evidence isn't saying much of anything. Actually, even "good" anecdotal evidence is a problem. One of the only real objective sorts of studies on this type of thing (language comparisons and results) was done by Rational (comparing C and Ada(83)). It can be read at /sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/docs/reports/cada/cada_art.html This is quite a good piece of work and should be read by anyone interested in this sort of issue, and certainly by anyone taking a "stand" on them. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com