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"Code should be easy to write, easy to read, easy to maintain, and most importantly, it should be reliable". Ada is not easy to write. Perl is easy to write (bu
by reacweb 9y ago
"Code should be easy to write, easy to read, easy to maintain, and most importantly, it should be reliable". Ada is not easy to write. Perl is easy to write (but not easy to read or maintain).
When I was student, Ada was the main language at my school. It was used the first year to teach algorithms and the second year to teach parallelism. During the first year, I have also learned C by myself for curiosity. After the summer holidays between first and second year, I had forgotten most of the syntax needed to start a new program in Ada, but I was remembering perfectly well how to code in C.
Even After 8 years of usage of Ada, I still needed the user manual regularly. After less than 1 year of usage of C, I could sell my R&K.
- reacweb 9y agoAs a disclaimer, I love Ada (and Perl) and I regularly despise C++.
- e12e 9y agoHow would you rate your young self on the "hello-my-name-is-scale", as I like of to think of Stroustrup's notes in his short article from 1999[1] -- in C and Ada at the time? Would your C code "blow up" differently from your Ada code, do you think? I'm not much of a fan of C++ myself, but I often find myself looking back at that short note, as a pretty valid criticism of how C tend to mix some parts that appear simple with some very complex actual behavior (eg: printing strings, reading in strings and integers). [1] http://www.stroustrup.com/new_learning.pdf http://www.stroustrup.com/new_learning.pdf "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language"
- the-dude 9y agoK&R, please.