Re: Ada design

rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
1 Feb 1996 21:47:50 -0500

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From: rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.compilers,comp.lang.ada
Date: 1 Feb 1996 21:47:50 -0500
Organization: Infinite Monkeys & Co.
References: 96-01-037 96-01-100 96-01-116 96-01-130
Keywords: design, Ada

Daniel J. Salomon <salomon@silver.cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>
>Ada's philosophy seems to be, "When in doubt, forbid it." As a
>result, a programmer can spend a lot of time turning sensible safe
>code into code that religiously observes all of Ada rules.
>
>C's philosopy seems to be, "When in doubt, permit it. It just might
>be correct." The freedom that this gives programmers to create new
>ways of solving problems may be one of the reasons that C remains so
>popular, despite the fact that it it unquestionably unsafe.


The more you work on OPC (other people's code), the more you come to
appreciate the former philosophy.
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