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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 ....
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:43:43 -0500
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Marine Systems
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- Ramses Youhana wrote:
- >
- > Another thing not mentioned is that Ada is far more complicated to learn
- > fully than is C/C++. The complexity of the language can add to an increase
- > in the probabilty of bugs being introduced and also adds to an increase in
- > project maintanace costs.
-
- Perhaps it was not mentioned becuase it is not true. My understanding
- was that C++ is more complicated that Ada.
-
- Either way, if Ada is as complicated as it gets, no one has anything
- to worry about. I managed to pass an Ada literacy test within a week
- of being introduced to the language. Any reasonably intelligent
- person with prior Pascal/Modula exposure could do the same.
-
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