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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171559496 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> <31ff organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: in comp.lang.religious-wars kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) writes: >On 31 Jul 96 10:36:37 GMT, dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk >Dickmanns) wrote: >>What made me looking at Ada was >>the extreme commitment to Ada of people using C before... think about >>it. >Curious. It's that's same commitment to C from former Ada programmers that >makes me so leery of Ada. Especially since these are all people whom I >consider to be good programmers (not a distinction I give lightly). >Kevin D Quitt USA 91351-4454 96.37% of all statistics are made up So our statistics are made up in different ways ;-) I not yet met the people you are talking about. Dirk -- Dirk Dickmanns -- REALIS -- real-time dynamic computer vision Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Ada, OCCAM, C, Eiffel, PROLOG, C++