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- From: J Greene <jkgreene@nando.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:30:53 -0800
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- References: <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> <Dn3Krz.6yw@research.att.com> <4ges3t$mca@qualcomm.com>
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- Nasser Abbasi wrote:
- >
- > In article <Dn3Krz.6yw@research.att.com>, ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) says:
- > >
- > >In article <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> x!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!usenet writes:
- > >
- > >> Given 2 equally good programmers one in C++ and one in Ada, most
- > >> people will agree that Ada code is easier to read than the C++ code.
- > >
- > >Most? I have yet to meet anyone who knows both Ada and C++
- > >well enough to be able to make a reasoned comparison.
- > >--
- >
- > Does one really need to be a guru in both languages to observe that
- > one is more readable than the other?
- >
- > I was not talking about a comprehensive comparison. I was only talking
- > about the readability (sp?) aspect of the languages.
- >
- > Nasser
-
-
- I have industry expierence in both languages. It has been my expierence
- that the readiblity of a language actually depends on the programming
- style of the author. I have come across pieces of Ada code which
- very painful to debug, and I can say the same for C++. I have also
- worked (thankfully a good deal of the time) with well written C++
- code that was easy to pick up, and the same for Ada.
-
- Implementation and good software engineering make or break any software.
- As for readiblity, a poor software engineer can make either a nightmare.
-
- I have had to learn both, work in both, and maintain both. To be honest,
- each is just another language. As far as the argument of readibility
- goes, I have found that the programmer makes the difference,
- (between C++ and Ada) not the language.
-
- J.Greene
-