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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc52c633190162e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1172144043.746296.44680@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1172161751.573558.24140@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <546qkhF1tr7dtU1@mid.individual.net> <5ZULh.48$YL5.40@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net> <1175215906.645110.217810@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1175230352.808212.15550@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1175236212.771445.135460@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: why learn C? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.134.100.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.net 1175276820 ST000 70.134.100.216 (Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:47:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:47:00 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONTBWQR]TX\ZIBNFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RSAANVUEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NBFXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:47:00 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14685 Date: 2007-03-30T17:47:00+00:00 List-Id: "Case Crab" wrote in message news:1175236212.771445.135460@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > > Compile-time checks can also help, up to a point. But they don't > solve the whole problem. > True. Software is never easy. We always need a set of tools to ensure that what we intended is what we got. Further, Ada is not restricted to the checking of data types at compile-time. It includes a powerful set of options that allow a variety of kinds of checks, when the developer uses them. This is better than the alternative languages such as C++ that simply fail to provide the range of options found in Ada. One of my favorite columns in the now defunct C++ Report magazine was titled "Obfuscated C++." I still have some of those articles clipped out an in a three-ring binder. In every case, the obfuscation illustrated was something that simply could not happen in Ada. I cannot imagine anyone writing a column called "Obfuscated Ada." Richard Riehle