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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: 11 Mar 1996 13:45:53 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com>,
- Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote:
- >Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >
- >> Ada does incorporate the features of a lot of these tools into its standard.
- >> But are you saying that there are no add-on, platform-dependent products for
- >> Ada that extend the capabilities further where needed?
- >
- >Actually, I'm addressing your statement that Ada checks are not needed by "real"
- >C programmers. In fact, they are needed so badly for large systems that many companies
- >make good money by providing this add-on capability.
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- Oops, did I say that? Where? I thought I said that checks are not omnipotent,
- and that the capabilities of Ada implementations have perhaps been a little bit
- overstated by the zealous regulars of comp.lang.ada! But that topic is long
- dead.
-
- >But, now that you bring it up, I actually don't need a lot of add-on products to
- >write productively in Ada. "Make"-class tools? Got the Ada librarian, thanks. "Lint?"
-
- Make is not really a C tool. I use Make to process TeX documents for instance.
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