From: David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro>
Subject: Re: Why I like Ada
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:33:43 GMT
Date: 2004-05-26T19:33:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.26.19.11.04.359100@email.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 27145927.nZCqhEjHl9@linux1.krischik.com
On Wed, 26 May 2004 18:15:53 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
>>
>> Here is another quote that got me smiling lately:
>>
>> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
>> definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
>
> If you program in C/C++ that is indeed true. How glad I am that I found out
> about Ada.
Why do you think it's a function of programming language? It may be at
a different level, but you can replace divisions with bit-twiddling,
structured code with hyperoptimized gotos, or manually inline code in
Ada just like C.
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2004-05-22 0:39 Why I like Ada Fionn mac Cuimhaill
2004-05-22 14:11 ` Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-22 15:23 ` Preben Randhol
2004-05-22 16:27 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-25 21:29 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-26 7:44 ` Peter Amey
2004-05-26 8:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-26 16:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26 19:33 ` David Starner [this message]
2004-05-30 18:06 ` Richard Riehle
2004-05-30 18:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-30 19:09 ` Adrian Knoth
2004-05-31 13:27 ` Björn Persson
[not found] ` <inpkb0d57uiaf6970hk0ctj09orni4piea@4ax.com>
2004-05-31 2:07 ` Richard Riehle
2004-05-26 15:30 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-01 3:57 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-02 1:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-02 5:13 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-22 22:01 ` Wes Groleau
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