Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!jrdzzz.jrd.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit345!diamond From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Readability of Ada Message-ID: <1991Apr25.020325.3371@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 25 Apr 91 02:03:25 GMT References: Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 17 In article jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: >>Frankly, I didn't find the Ada particularly readable -- it was too large >>to fit on one screen and I lost interest in the exercise. The C code >>(once it was formatted and its variables made more useful) was small >>enough to be seen in its entirety, allowing the eye to follow >>interpretive explorations easily and quickly. > >Uh huh. And did you catch the bugs? The bugs in the C version or in the Ada version? They had one bug in common but the other bugs were different. Anyway, the odds of catching a bug increase if one is looking for bugs, or if one is examining the program, rather than if one is examining the formatting style. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.