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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 20:57:38 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <JSA.96Feb29151220@organon.com> <4h5cf0INNanc@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <dewar.825775594@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.825775594@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Kazimir says
- >
- >"There is no such official test suite for validating C"
- >
- >This is wrong. It does not help the argument to make such plainly incorrect
- >statements. NIST has a formal validation procedure for C with a test suite
- >that is officially used for this purpose. Many C compilers have been
- >validated using this test suite.
-
- Tell more.
-
- This chips a significant chunk away from the anti C arguments given by the Ada
- fanatics (as if either language was some kind of threat to the other, really...)
-
- The whole argument boils down to validation suites, since both languages are
- rigorously standardized.
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