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- From: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 01:25:58 GMT
- Organization: SCITEC LIMITED, Sydney, Australia.
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- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <BYERLY_J.96Feb7170158@srm9.motsat.sat.mot.com>
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- John Byerly (byerly_j@srm9.motsat.sat.mot.com) wrote:
- > In article <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com (The Right Reverend Colin James III) writes:
-
- You complain about someone elses logic being flawed when your logic is just as flawed.
- Don't just read other peoples comments and take them at face value. Try and understand
- them first.
-
- For example:
-
- > > C/C++ is also superior for six, very practical reasons:
- > >
- > > 1. C/C++ compilers which are industrial quality with professional
- > > support are cheaper than the expensive, vendor-gouging Ada ones;
-
- > C/C++ is cheaper than Ada. Does that mean that it is superior to Ada? If so, let's
- > follow the logic and grab a freeware compiler of some language, since it would be
- > (by your logic) more superior to C/C++.
-
- In the first posting, the writer does not say that the cheaper the product is the better
- it is. Instead he believes that C/C++ is better than Ada (for practical reasons) because
- it is within more peoples reach, as C/C++ compilers and tools are cheaper than the equivalent
- Ada compilers and tools. As a result, it is more likely that there are more people out
- there who use (and/or prefer to use) C/C++ than Ada.
-
- How many Ada compilers and software tools are there out there for (say) writing Windows
- applications, and how good are these applications compared with those of C/C++
- compilers and tools (especially when you take value for money into account)?
-
-
- > > 5. C/C++ jobs are more in demand and plentiful and easier to get and
- > > in hundreds more US geographic areas than Ada jobs;
-
- > Yes, and burger flipping jobs are even more plentiful than C/C++ jobs. Once again,
- > this has NO bearing on how effective a tool is.
-
- C/C++ and Ada are software languages useful for writing programs. Burgers are not. If
- you are a software programmer or a Software engineer, then C/C++ and Ada jobs are more
- appropriate than are Burger flipping jobs.
-
-
- Ramses.
-