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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: 6 Mar 1996 13:36:06 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <313C758E.18B2@lfwc.lockheed.com> <313D4D00.875@ix.netcom.com> <313D94FB.1599@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- In article <313D94FB.1599@lfwc.lockheed.com>,
- Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote:
- >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
-
- More like, rarely. Such problems are an infrequent source of frustrations, but
- they do occur.
-
- >catch. By his argument, anyone that buys these add-on C checkers (some
- >fairly expensive) is just a bad programmer.
-
- No.
-
- But those checkers _are_ available, and do work. There are a lot of very good
- such freeware tools, by the way.
-
- >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)?
-
- Those checks are valuable. Ada is backed by the right idea.
-
- On the other hand, those checks are not omnipotent.
-
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