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: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 238539316 Distribution: world References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5j078b$b25$1@NNTP.MsState.Edu> <5j31lj$qnk@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <335F9D0E.41C67EA6@cacd.rockwell.com> <5jqvbj$bd9@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net> <5k67fl$eit@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5k67fl$eit@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> Craig Franck writes: > >Well, you rather miss the mark on this particular comment as at least > >two of the requirements in question ("readability, safety,") are not > >exactly specific to DoD. Or do you think Bell Labs (or ATT) doesn't > >really care about either issue? Actually, for all I know, maybe they > >don't and your comment is in fact spot on. > > Oh, sure; why should they care if phone service is disrupted? I I guess this means they do care about this stuff. > think you can argue which snippet is more readable. I think Ada > may be a tad too verbose, and C a smidgeon too terse. This is irrelevant. You may well think Ada doesn't satisfy the requirements either. I may think otherwise, but that's irrelevant too. The point is simply that Bell Labs stated that C could not possibly meet them. Shrug. > Anyway, is AND more readable than &&? Who knows. As you say, who knows. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com