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: ntxbow Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 167952035 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: ntxbow.demon.co.uk references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: Cogent mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar writes >Kevin says > >"I do the same in C. The problem is that Ada won't *let* you use your superior >skill, i.e., nothing is gained by it. For someone who knows what they're >doing, it's just as easy to write good, clean, safe code in C (or assembly, or >*any* language) as it is in Ada." > > > Sorry, but you're spouting rubbish, I've worked on several large projects, some safety critical some not, some Ada some C, some mixed, all staffed by various levels of software engineer, coder, hacker, whatever. I would not wish to fly on an aircraft with its safety critical aspects looked after by a C program, there are too many variables (no pun intended), the varying people who work on projects chuck out varying quality of code, using your "superior skill" in my book would mean using junk code that I would bounce as it would be difficult to maintain and probably risky in implementation. It's horses for courses, if you want a GUI on a PC running word, use C, if you want a system that's going to look after peoples lives or whatever use Ada, if you believe otherwise carry on ranting but we who have to implement these systems will just laugh at your naivety and avoid being sued for implementing a system that spoiled someones day big time. Rant ends ;-) jeff farr -- ntxbow