Re: Hoare's gripes about Ada (was Re: Ada and C++ ...)

[netcomsv!netcom.com!nbh@decwrl.dec.com (N.B. Hedd)]

Ted, Ted, Ted--before using Hoare as an authority on language design, can
you please enumerate for me the languages that Hoare himself has designed
that have proven to be commercial successes? 'Cause personally I can't
think of anything significant he's done in the field of language design.
He's no Ichbiah. He's no Meyer. He's no Kernigan or Richie. Hell, he's not
even a Bjarne.

He's just some old fart who ran out of original ideas a couple of decades
ago and who's only real claim to fame these days is an idiotic speech 
attacking Ada but proposing no extent language as an alternative for
the sorts of dangerous, mission-critical, absolutely-cannot-fail systems
for which Ada was designed.

And besides all that, it's not as if Hoare is trumpeting the virtues of
C/C++. If he was alarmed by Ada because he thought it was too complex to
be proven correct and therefore unsuitable for controlling nuclear reactors,
do you honestly think he'd deem C++ or C SAFER? What color is the sky on
your planet?
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