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- From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
- Subject: Re: FORTRAN bug(was Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.213147.24000@seas.gwu.edu>
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- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <1992Dec8.172551.16780@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Dec9.060218.23940@seas.gwu.edu> <1992Dec11.132942.24054@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:31:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.132942.24054@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >
- >>For 10 points on your grade: what is printed? Why?
- >>Try explaining it to a freshman.
- >
- >Nothing is printed. You built an infinite loop. This is hard to
- >understand? You made a while loop with an empty body and a condition
- >that is never met because you never increment x. Your freshmen don't
- >get this?
-
- Sure they get it. I just don't want to take my time or theirs on this
- kind of silliness. Which is why I keep saying that C should be
- everyone's second language and nobody's first.
- >
- >>Any similar idiosyncracies in Ada?
- >
- >Single character ones? Probably not, but that just indicates that Ada
- >is incredibly more verbose than C. One of the things I DISlike about
- >it, by the way.
- >
- You're certainly entitled to your opinion. I'm not down on C. I'd
- rather train my teenager on a nice, verbose, safe car and give him
- the keys to the Porsche after he's proven himself on the Chevy.
- Less chance he'll waste his time crashing and burning. And the 70% or
- more of the freshman teachers who are going to Ada or sticking with
- Pascal (only slightly less verbose than Ada) agree.
-
- Please - no more language wars.
-
- Mike
-