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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-27 15:00:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!216.166.71.14!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:59:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:00:18 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq References: <1051282861.155019@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.112 X-Trace: sv3-wHgPf5SaA149FlzJl8i2MGLwfFqPOWP01c7VoqSHspF4OsqrLf0Gyqd41CYRtKW/ui9wTusZ/aKtx8y!XsJ0XZaX55hoWk4MjVlsnOoxExdjDQDfr77HiHIVtXsoP4Ij6a+qM90NlxTM7BWloZ6uWp/vHKYE!YmVf/w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36671 Date: 2003-04-27T17:00:18-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Hyman Rosen wrote: >>Without an expert in Ada around to supervise the training, the >>people learning Ada aren't going to know when they've learned >>enough about the language to use it properly. There were few Ada experts available when some of the successful projects started. > At any rate C++ must be one of the worste programming language to be > good at as it has so many side effects and perculiarties that you need > to read several books to learn how to avoid its pitfalls etc... I read more than half of "C Traps and Pitfalls" NONE of what I read could happen in Ada. (One of them would never happen in C either, because not even the worst C programmer would have written something that unreadable--and not even the best would have been able to read it without some scratch paper to help take it apart.)