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- From: tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 13:36:40 -0500
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- >Didn't NASA loose a satelite due to a bug in a piece of Ada code?
-
- Cripes. I'd DIE if my company ever lost a billion dollar piece of
- equipment because of a bug in my code! That would s*uck, bigtime.
-
- Btw... someone mentioned that any language can be a good language (I am
- not quoting exactly, here) as long as the people using it have standards
- regarding variable, function and constant declarations, as well as a
- standardized function parameter interface. I think that is the key to
- designing and implementing any application (along with knowing how to
- determine the user's needs, and designing an excellent, simple,
- easy-to-use interface). Where I work, there are/were no (followed)
- standards and we are in the (long) process of defining them. It is not an
- easy road to take, since everyone there has there own idea of how it
- should be done. (Does anyone know of any papers or books on the topic?)
- We are also
- developing code that will scan and parse newly written programs and
- redeclare variable names that do not comply, as well as (I hope) point out
- other discrepancies to the standards. The ideal, of course, is to not
- NEED such software, but I imagine it will come in handy.
-
- Mike
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