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,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 164182039 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rgqp7$iv6@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Amey said "All this talk about skilled programmers and being over-protected by Ada reminds me of something that was drummed into me during my aviating days. I was taught: "The superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations that would require his superior skill" I use Ada precisely because it avoids the need constantly to demonstrate my superior skill :-) Peter" Robert responds Well there are some posts on CLA that certainly make it worth while to continue reading it :-) Peter, that's a really nice quote. I emailed you but my mailer does not understand your reply address. Anyway, I would like to ask if I can use that quote in its entirety on future occasions (with proper attribution of course -- incidentally does anyone know the origin of the referenced quotation?) Thanks Peter for brightening up the day :-)