Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!munck@mitre-bedford.ARPA
From: munck@mitre-bedford.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re:  Unix and user friendly systems
Message-ID: <11113@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 22:41:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11113
Posted: Tue May 28 22:41:41 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 02:08:03 EDT
Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA
Lines: 17


> Ada??  You gotta be kidding..
>
> There is NO programming language that can force coders to write good
> code.  Good programming is possible in C and not even as difficult as
> in many Pascal-based languages.  Ditto for bad programming. 

Read my lips.  I said

>>    In my opinion, the language that best supports writing of superbly
>> human-readable programs at no significant expense in machine 
>> efficiency is Ada.  I doubt that anyone will challenge that...

It may be possible in C, but it is both difficult and rare.  I'd be hard
put to find a significant piece of code in UNIX that I'd call a good
example of easy-to-read code.  Any nominations from the community?
              -- Bob Munck