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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca's message of 27 Feb 1996 13:01:35 -0800
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- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:12:20 GMT
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- In article <4gvrffINNlqo@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
-
- > And it should certainly not be written in some poorly standardized
- > language, for which no two implementations are in agreement. C is
- > governed by an ISO standard, which, if adhered to, lets a strictly
- > conforming program translated by a strictly conforming
- > implementation yield well-defined results.
- >
- > I don't think you can say the same for Ada or C++.
-
- And you are, of course, in error. Indeed, Ada is an ISO/ANSI standard.
- And it has a much more well defined semantics than ISO C (not nearly as
- many or as confusingly stated "implementation defined" bits). And, of
- course, there is at least the ACVC Ada compiler validation test suite.
- Only compilers passing this test suite can be termed "validated". Sure,
- it does not gurantee perfect compliance with all the RM, but goes a long
- way toward ensuring consistency and compliance of those compilers that
- pass it. There is no such official test suite for validating C. So,
- your point is well taken, but even more applicable to Ada than C. By
- a _long_ way.
-
- /Jon
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