Re: Comments on Ada vs. C++ panel

[att!cbnewsk!cbnewsj!att-out!walter!obry@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Pascal Obry]

Fred,

> I'm curious about this.  Perhaps someone who agrees with this can
> explain to me why a language restriction is better than, say, an
> organizational policy restriction.  Personally, I would consider a
> language that allows me to do things in special cases to be better
> than one which does not, even if the 'things' are not necessarily a
> good idea in the usual case.

No flamewar here.

The answer could be : We need language restrictions because we are *only*
		      humans. And even with a strong policy restrictions
		      we can't be sure to stay in the straight line. And worst
		      we can't be sure that others would stay ...

So after while, how will you look at the software ?

Pascal.


Le plus important dans un language ce n'est pas ce qu'il permet c'est ce qu'il
interdit. J.P. Rosen (I'am not sure of the author)


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