Re: compiler benchmark comparisons (was: naval systems)

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<TgAW8WWqYgP5@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> 
> > When the tool that generates the makefiles is the 
> > previous run of the C compiler itself, the difference
> > from Ada seems quite small.
> 
> Well it is in practice quite large in most environments. 
> Very few C environments update the makefile on every

And this can be said for many points. In almost all discussions I have with
co-workers about programing languages features, each time I show on advantage
in Ada I got something like "but this is also possible with XYZ language" !

And of course it is possible, everything is possible with every programing
language... The fact is completly different. If the language does not have a
built-in tools to support the feature then it is not addressed. Because the
dead-line is comming, because money, because time... everything that require
some more work to setup the environment, tools is most of the time skipped.

To goes even farther I find the GNAT -gnaty option very nice. You can write
on paper rules about laying out of code and syntax but if the compiler does
not check that who will ????

> So in practice, most Ada programmers find this a significant advantage
> of Ada over C, but of course
> your mileage may vary (after all there is nothing
> that requires an Ada environment to have decent tools,
                   ^^^^ C here I think
> although there is still something that requires it to
> check for inconsistencies, unlike the case with Ada).

In theory there is no difference in theory and practice... in practice 
there are :)

Pascal.

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