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: 103376,7b3c720a19fbb26f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Preben Randhol Subject: Re: What Mac developers think of Ada ! Date: 1999/10/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 542689367 References: <381A0466.2137859E@mbox5.singnet.com.sg> <01bf22b0$4b8bb9e0$022a6282@dieppe> <7vfhvu$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 941365205 3666 129.241.83.82 (31 Oct 1999 10:20:05 GMT) Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 1999 10:20:05 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-31T10:20:05+00:00 List-Id: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) writes: | On 30 Oct 1999 08:23:39 GMT, Pascal Obry 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