From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: What Mac developers think of Ada !
Date: 1999/10/31
Date: 1999-10-31T10:20:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3904j7rwx.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vfhvu$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu
dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) writes:
| On 30 Oct 1999 08:23:39 GMT, Pascal Obry <pascal_obry@csi.com> wrote:
| >Ok, Ada is huge and there is maybe more chances to have bugs in the
| >compiler.
| I'm not sure this is fair. Compared with the languages that were popular
| in '83, sure, Ada was a little large. (C is a small language, and the
| Pascals and BASICs of the time were small.) It's smaller than C++, currently
| a popular language. The compiler frontend would be simpler than Fortran 90.
| Java maybe fairly small, but the standard library is huge and growing.
| And compared to implemented languages? Anyone take a look at GNU Pascal
| recently? Visual Basic?
I agree.
C is a small language so you have to implement things that already are
in Ada. I think that the chance that there are bugs in those self made
C implementations is bigger than in the compiler for a well tested
language designed with these implementations.
Preben who hate that so many C programs SIGSEVS.
--
Preben Randhol Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
[randhol@pvv.org] And thou art wedded to calamity.
[http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] -- W. Shakespeare
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-30 0:00 What Mac developers think of Ada ! Siow Wey Hua
1999-10-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-10-30 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Michael Smith
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Excessive quoting (was: What Mac developers think of Ada !) Ted Dennison
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
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