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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: compiler benchmark comparisons (was: naval systems)
Date: 02 Mar 2002 12:12:47 +0100
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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:...
>
> > 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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