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- From: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond)
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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- Message-ID: <1996Mar13.172859.88220@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:28:59 GMT
- Reply-To: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond)
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <3taaha$p8j@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <3taodp$859@saba.info.ucla.edu> <3tap9h$qp3@saba.info.ucla.edu> <314628F2.31C8@aud.alcatel.com> <4i682p$40go@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- In article <4i682p$40go@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
- ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:
- |>Ralph Janke (ralph_janke@aud.alcatel.com) wrote:
- |>: Therefore, before stating that C contradicts SE, we should define which
- |>aspects of
- |>: quality are of interest. It might be portability, reuseability etc, or
- |>performance. With
- |>: these aspect C might match SE better than other languages !
- |>
- |>FYI: You are definitely wrong concerning
- |> -- portability
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- no, ANSI C will run unmodified on just about anything
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- |> -- reusability
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- same again, but reusability is a function of design, not language
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- |> -- and(!) performance
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- C is far easier to optimise than, say, ADA.
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- |>The first two properties are easily explain. The third property, performance,
- |>takes a little longer to explain but is well proven, documented and
- |>published. ;-)
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- whereabouts? I'd like to read it.
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