From: bishopm@source.asset.com (Michael M. Bishop)
Subject: Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks
Date: 10 Sep 1994 23:41:21 -0400
Date: 1994-09-10T23:41:21-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34tu91$139u@source.asset.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 347idh$15ss@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
In article <347idh$15ss@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>And whenever I try to explain this to a dedicated C programmer, I receive
>the reply, "What's wrong with just using Lint?" Ada promoters should be
>prepared to answer this objection before they make the argument about Ada
>facilitating the detection of errors. Here are some counterarguments,
>some more compelling than others:
[lots of good reasons that Ada compilers are better than C compilers +
Lint snipped]
My $0.02: The few times I tried to use Lint, either it didn't catch some
actual problems with the code, or I had trouble figuring out the listing
it generated. (Maybe I have a built-in bias against C or I'm just
stupid. :-) Ada error messages include references to sections of the LRM
so programmers can figure out why the compiler issued the error.
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1994-09-06 13:46 ` Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks david.c.willett
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1994-09-08 7:04 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-08 9:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-08 17:12 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-08 17:28 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-22 8:51 ` Brendan WALKER
1994-09-07 22:44 ` John Goodsen
1994-09-08 6:32 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
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[not found] ` <1994Sep4.092729.21408@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
1994-09-07 22:46 ` John Goodsen
1994-09-08 6:47 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-09-08 8:52 ` David Emery
1994-09-11 3:41 ` Michael M. Bishop [this message]
1994-09-11 12:20 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 13:29 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-12 14:03 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-11 21:48 ` Erik Naggum
1994-09-11 23:47 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-12 6:28 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-12 12:22 ` David Weller
1994-09-12 20:03 ` Erik Naggum
1994-09-12 19:16 ` Maarten Landzaat
1994-09-13 10:10 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-17 12:07 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-12 20:49 ` Mitch Gart
1994-10-13 10:51 Bob Wells #402
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