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: dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171225237 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31EE19D1.6977@lfwc.lockheed.com> <31efe069.63062188@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4sopkp$dao@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <31F613F3.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <01bb7bf9$b89a1740$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <01bb7da5$ef97cf00$96ee6fcf@timhome2> organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Tim Behrendsen" writes: >Dirk Dickmanns wrote >> I posted five reasons from an earlier post of yours, I'll add some >> now: >Sorry -- I thought you were joking before. No! You just had them right! Many others posted similar reasons for Ada not taking off. Technical merit is of no concern on that matter. What made me looking at Ada was the extreme commitment to Ada of people using C before... think about it. I am just beginning to profit from choosing Ada over C :-) Dirk -- Dirk Dickmanns -- REALIS -- real-time dynamic computer vision Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Ada, OCCAM, C, Eiffel, PROLOG, C++