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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 12:17:46 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Ramses says:
-
- "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.
-
- Ramses."
-
- Well from that comment, one thing we know for sure is that Ramses has not
- yet "learn[ed] fully .. C/C++"
-
- In fact anyone lumping C and C++ together in the same breath like that often
- turns out not to know C++ very well at all, since if you really *do* know
- C++ you would not consider it to be in the same complexity class as C.
-
- I would *definitely* guess from your comments that you have not learned
- Ada 95 fully, and it seems appropriate to suggest that only someone who
- DID know both languages really well could offer even a semi-relevant
- *subjective* opinion on the relative complexities of the languages.
-
- By objective criteria (size of description e.g.) they are similar, but it
- is hard to know whether such criteria are meaningful.
-
- What is interesting is to ask how often bugs are caused by misunderstanding
- of the language. Here in my experience, Ada 95 has a clear win, since many
- misunderstandings result in compiler error messages instead of obscure
- runtime bugs.
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-