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- From: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:32:35 GMT
- Organization: QUalcomm Inc.
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- In article <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com>, pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) says:
- >
- >In article <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk>, chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk says...
- >>
- >>With regards to maintenance, there's many people out there who consider
- >>C/C++ a Write only language.
- >
- >How many of the people who say this have actually used C++ enough to
- >understand it? I know it's popular today to dump on C++, but my experience has
- >been that most of the people who produce one-liners like this simply don't
- >know what they're talking about. If relying on that sort of ignorance is the
- >best you can do to defend ADA, so be it. But I'll bet that if you try you can
- >come up with arguments that are actually based on fact. Those would lead to a
- >much more interesting and useful discussion.
- >
-
- Given 2 equally good programmers one in C++ and one in Ada, most
- people will agree that Ada code is easier to read than the C++ code.
-
- (Ada is sometimes used to write algorithm in becuase of its clarity,
- even though the actual algorithm will be coded in another language).
-
- I have been programming officialy for about 13 years now, and
- programmed in about 7-8 languages an average of 1-3 years each, and
- I can say that I found Pascal and Ada code the easist to read,
- followed by FORTRAN and PLI followed by SNOBOL followed by C/C++ and
- LISP and BLISS and finally assembler.
-
- A code that is easier to read, is easier to maintain.
-
- Nasser
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