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- From: Poconnor@apci.net (James O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 02:06:24 GMT
- Organization: Applied Personal Computing, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4g3d70$nnn@queeg.apci.net>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <3114d8fb.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de> <4f5h5t$f13@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4g1bgf$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk>
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- 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.
-
-
- James O'Connor
- oconnor@apci.net
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-