Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.174020.13582@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 17:40:20 GMT

You know, this C-vs-Ada-control-structures argument is totally pointless
and deadly boring.  Neither language is ideal, but neither is fatally
flawed, and the differences between *programmers* are so large that they
totally swamp differences between *languages* in most practical situations.
Languages cannot save you from yourself except in relatively minor ways.
Despite repeated attempts (including Ada) to develop languages in which
it would be impossible to write bad programs, the bad programmers have
consistently, and usually fairly easily, found ways to continue making
their messes.

Give it a rest, guys.
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