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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: My love-hate relationship with C
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:49:58 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-10-22T15:49:58+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbpd9p4.j45.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1066833793.934909@master.nyc.kbcfp.com

On 2003-10-22, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Volkert wrote:
>> http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15306089
>
> Notice that one of his peeves is "The language should simply
> not permit leaks;", which Ada does not solve.
>
> Another is allowing multiple indirections, when you have
> pointers to pointers. Ada permits this as well, of course.
>
> Another is free-formatting of source code ("C has no formatting
> rules"). Ada allows the same freedom.
>

And your point is?

-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-22 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 14:39 My love-hate relationship with C Volkert
2003-10-21 16:36 ` Peter Hermann
2003-10-22  1:09   ` Wes Groleau
2003-10-22  1:30 ` Mike Silva
2003-10-22 14:43 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-10-22 15:49   ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2003-10-22 16:03     ` Hyman Rosen
2003-10-23  7:58       ` Preben Randhol
2003-10-22 18:40   ` Volkert
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