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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
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kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote:

>Note that while we have been speaking here about safety, no one has
>mentionned readability.

Probably because this is what Ada is so well known for, that nobody in
c.l.a. doesn't think about it anymore... ;)

>  And IMHO, this is the most important single
>feature of safety: a well run code review will catch many more errors
>than the best compiler, but for a code review to be effective, the
>readers have to be able to understand what you have written.

I fully agree with that. And IMO Ada makes writing readable programs
very easy.=20

>Not that I'd try and present this as an argument for C++:-).

Beware of the flame wars... :)

As you already mentioned, no language is perfect, so in that respect
it is surely possible to write unreadable code in Ada, but this is at
least much harder to achieve than in C++.


Vinzent.

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