Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)

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From: Theodore Dennison
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:10

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jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) wrote:
>nelsoni@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Ian S. Nelson) writes:
>
>> Ignorant stuff about how C is not the ultimate language.
>
>Come on!  What do you think the #1 Computer Science Dept. in the US
>teaches, not Ada or Modula* but C!  This proves that C is 100X better
>than Ada!  What does the rest of Computer Science use for doing
>research?: C and Unix!  

Heh, heh, heh.

Pretty good. But I have a friendly warning: Be careful posting
bits of sarcasm like this without some kind of "sarcasm warning". 
Most folks will catch it, but that 10% that don't will touch off a 
humongous flame-war. 

I have a few to add (from personal experience):
                                                 C      Ada
Change value of a numeric literal                10      0
Use pre-processor to simulate other languages    10      0
Crash other machines on network with simple
"off by 1" looping error                         10      0
Produce executable, no matter how badly
mangled source is                                10      0

It just gets worse and worse for Ada! ;-)

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Subject: Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
Date: 29 Sep 1995 18:10:58 GMT
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