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- From: Chris Littlejohns <chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:35:37 +0000
- Organization: Rational Software
- Message-ID: <31263C19.3462@cmlj.demon.co.uk>
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- James O'Connor wrote:
- >
- > In <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk>, Chris Littlejohns <chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk> writes:
- > >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.
- > >
- > >The only area of Ada that I've observed people having real difficulty
- > >with is Tasking. However, concurrent threads is something that a lot of
- > >people have difficulty with irrespective of the language.
- > >
- > >With regards to maintenance, there's many people out there who consider
- > >C/C++ a Write only language. It takes real talent to write an unreadable
- > >Ada program. I know what I'd prefer any day, and it begins with 'A'.
- >
- > Not really, my first professional programming was maintaing a poorly designed
- > Ada program. The code was a disaster. No private types, all types in the
- > public part of the spec. Obscure use of unchecked-conversion, misunderstanding
- > of how enumerated types were indexed.
- > This experience quickly got me over the Ada propaganada and I now fully
- > believe that there is no substitue to disciplined, experienced designers and
- > programmers.
-
- 100% agree, I was just assuming a level of competence slightly above the inability
- to structure anything at all!! :-)
-
- >
- >
- > James O'Connor
- > oconnor@apci.net
-