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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: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:10:45 +0000
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
- Message-ID: <313EE055.7A59@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- > Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote:
- > >> If C is so prone to errors, why isn't the same program plagued by runaway
- > >> pointers, heap corruption and other nasties? After all, we C idiots can't write
- > >> ten lines of code without introducing such problems, right?
- > >
- > >Counter-example - if C code isn't so prone to the types of errors Ada is designed
- > >to catch, then why are there so many add-on tools available to try to find these
- > >errors in C code? What is driving this market?
- >
- > The immense popularity of C?
- > --
-
- The immense popularity of C ... among programmers that you consider to be incompetent?
-
- The immense popularity of C ... so immense, in fact, that programmers are willing to buy
- expensive add-ons to find problems that you insist rarely occur, just to increase the
- market?
-
- Or maybe... just maybe... the immense popularity of C - when it is enhanced in various
- non-standard and proprietary ways to help avoid the types of errors that languages like
- Ada avoid in standard ways? Errors which occur far more frequently that you are willing to
- admit?
-