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- From: collins@thor.tu.hac.com (Ron Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 18:09:40 GMT
- Organization: Advanced Depot Systems
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- Haug Buerger (haug@zesi.ruhr.de) wrote:
-
- : Would you say Borland C/C++ is a professional compiler? It's
- : cheap, that's true but that's all. It's not eaven a real ANSI C
- : compiler. Some funktions do not work like the ANSI standard says
- : and it's documented. Everybody thinks it's an ANSI C compiler
- : because there is no test suite for ANSI C and everybody can say
- : he has an ANSI C compiler.
-
- : C++ has no real standard and most source is not portable. It's
- : missing a test suite, too.
-
- : I would like to know how many of these 900 platforms have a real
- : ANSI C compiler. My experiance is that most non trivial C code is
- : not portable and needs lots of modifications. C++ is worse.
-
- : Haug
-
-
- I think you're missing the point. I can buy a C/C++ compiler for a few
- hundred $$ for just about any platform I can think of. I can get a
- professional quality C/C++ compiler (GCC) for free for a lot of platforms.
- And I can use these compilers to write very usefull programs. Being
- ANSI compliant is nice, but not critical.
-
- An Ada compiler is, by comparison, extremely expensive. And it is not
- available for quite a few of the machines that I've had to work with.
- (Example: there was no Ada compiler available for the MAC 3 years ago; I
- don't know if one is available now. But that job is over, and it was
- written in the MAC version of C. So what if it's not portable? It only
- has to run on a MAC).
-
- I really don't care how good Ada is. If I can't find it, or my company
- can't afford it, it's totally useless to me.
-
-
- -- Collins --
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- Ron Collins/Hughes Aircraft Company/M20,P20/Tucson Az 85706
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