Preben Randhol wrote: > After switching from C/C++ to Ada 95 I found again the joy in > programming. The main reason is that as soon as a program compiles and > can be quite certain that it will work as I intended.
This is obviously a gross exaggeration. You can be reasonably sure that an Ada95 program won't segfault, perhaps, but that it does what you intended is quite another matter. I have yet to see a type system that can detect, when compiling an expression like "a + b * c", that I really meant to say "(a + b) * c", for example, or "a * b + c". > PS: I don't want to start a flame war on which language is better, but I > have found that a lot of C/C++ programmers have never heard about Ada 95 > and a lot of people have been interested in the language when learning > more about it. In my experience, a lot of C/C++ programmers know only C/C++ really well. They often also have experience with some form of Basic or Pascal, or perhaps an assembly language or two, and a scripting language like Perl. Nowadays some Java experience isn't too uncommon. But that isn't exactly a broad spectrum of languages; all procedural or faux-object-oriented. Talk about narrow viewpoints. Craig
