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Le 22/04/2011 08:16, Elias Salom�o Helou Neto a �crit :
> Yep. That's a major problem. No matter how much I try to teach people
> to think before coding, they won't do so. But I don't think that Ada
> makes it any better, does it?
No, it just makes it more likely that inconsistent design will produce 
code that does not compile.

> Of course this is a rather good justification for Ada to be more
> widely adopted. As I've said elsewhere on this thread, Ada's premises
> are far more realistic than C's ones. But it does not make C a lame
> language.
>
C is not a lame language, because it fulfills its intended purpose: a 
portable assembly language. The trouble is if you take it for anything else.

My view of the difference between C and Ada is as follows:
    C is the best language to program a computer;
    Ada is the best language to develop a software application.

(please don't quote me on the first half without the second one!)

C is simply unbearable to people who are used to thinking at a higher 
level. (Says someone who programmed in an earlier life at a much lower 
level than anybody does nowadays - in binary, directly on the keys of a 
control panel).