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- From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 13:36:59 +0000
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
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- James E. Fuller wrote:
- >
- > Everybody wants a quick fix, a magic wand that makes their code
- > right. If you're gonna sell tools to do that, you probably will
- > want to target the language that darn near everybody uses, huh?
-
- Well, not everybody -- such as the C programmer to which I was responding.
- He said that he never had the kind of problems that Ada is designed to
- catch. By his argument, anyone that buys these add-on C checkers (some
- fairly expensive) is just a bad programmer.
-
- So, which is it? If a helluva lot of C/C++ programmers are buying these
- add-on tools, does this mean that most C/C++ programmers are bad programmers,
- or does it mean that these kind of checks are valuable (in which case,
- it would seem that Ada had the right idea)?
-