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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Subtle Bugs, kudos Ada (was How Ada ...Red Code ...)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:58:35 -0500
Organization: Raytheon Aerospace Engineering Services
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Richard Bos wrote:
> 
> "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> 
> > From one of the first books about C by K&R:
> > "C was designed on the assumption that the programmer is someone sensible who knows what he's doing"
> >
> > From the introduction of the Ada Reference Manual:
> > "Ada was designed with the concern of programming as a human activity"
> >
> > The fact that these starting hypothesis lead to two completely different philosophies
> > of languages is left as a subject for meditation...
> 
> <troll level="quite high>
> 
> The conclusion is obvious. C was designed for professionals; Ada for
> amateurs.
> 
> </troll>
> 
> <nasty g>
> 
> Richard

Of course, _any_ professional engaged in a code base which
severly exceeds his span of attention and control can only be
expected to behave as well as an amateur.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Senior Software Engineer II
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"