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- From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:38:11 -0500
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Marine Systems
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- Ramses Youhana wrote:
- >
- > You'll be surprised how easily both junior (and senior) engineers can turn
- > both C/C++ and Ada programs into spaghetti code. The language itself
- > doesn't make for a quality system.
-
- Quite true. But having "cleaned up" both, I can tell you Ada is MUCH
- easier to detangle.
-
- >
- > Didn't NASA loose a satelite due to a bug in a piece of Ada code?
-
-
- Not that I ever heard of. As I have worked on satelite groundstations
- for NASA in Ada, I would be interested to hear specifics on this
- incident.
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