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: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141024441 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <3114d8fb.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de> <4f5h5t$f13@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4g1bgf$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <4g2vn3$rgi@dfw.dfw.net> <4gj8f3$mr4@usenet.rpi.edu> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matthias says "Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't is the case that Robert is arguing against those who say "C/C++ is better than Ada" and not the other way around?" Robert replies: That was the original context, however, the problem of people arging language comparisons without knowing one of the languages well works in all directions. Quite often on CLA you see negative statements about C, C++ and other languages (in comparison to Ada), and it is clear that the writer does not know the other language well enough. Even if the writer is supporting Ada (and thus has the right conclusion :-) :-) uninformed argument does not help anything -- in fact uninformed argument hurts. So the rule that you should not argue in the language comparison area without knowing both languages well applies to Ada supporters too! P.S. it's true that the sited professor definitely seems not to be in this category, and of course I never suggested he/she was!