Ada versus C versus Pascal

Gerald Radack radack at cwruecmp.UUCP
Fri Jul 19 05:36:27 AEST 1985


In article <205 at tut.UUCP> jv at tut.UUCP (Jukka Vanhala) writes:
>Professor John H. Carson was quoted in Computer Design june -85.
>He speaks about strong typing in different languages and says:
>	- C is a language for consenting adults
>	- Pascal is a language for children when you don't want
>	  them to be naughty
>	- Ada is a language for criminals
>Well, I would say it another way:
>	- Ada is a language for software engineers

Does this mean that software engineers are criminals?
       gerry radack
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