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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 08:45:23 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Matthias says
-
- "Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't is the case that Robert is arguing
- against those who say "C/C++ is better than Ada" and not the other way
- around?"
-
- Robert replies:
-
- That was the original context, however, the problem of people arging
- language comparisons without knowing one of the languages well works
- in all directions. Quite often on CLA you see negative statements about
- C, C++ and other languages (in comparison to Ada), and it is clear that
- the writer does not know the other language well enough. Even if the
- writer is supporting Ada (and thus has the right conclusion :-) :-)
- uninformed argument does not help anything -- in fact uninformed
- argument hurts.
-
- So the rule that you should not argue in the language comparison area
- without knowing both languages well applies to Ada supporters too!
-
- P.S. it's true that the sited professor definitely seems not to be in
- this category, and of course I never suggested he/she was!
-
-