That's a good view point...I never thought of it that way...you are opening my eyes.
Thanks, Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:02 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal C++ was a huge step backward from Ada, IMHO. There'd have been no need for Purify if everyone programmed in Ada instead of C and C++. How many billions of dollars have been lost just to = vs ==, much less to memory leaks. Pascal was a teaching language never intended for industrial use. Both Pascal and Ada are Algol-style languages, which optimize for human readability. The developers of C optimized instead for "minimal keystrokes during program entry", and C++ inherited this unfortunate decision. We type a program once; we read it many times over its life. But we digress... 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > Speaking of Ada, I developed the MS-Windows AMDS ( > https://peoiewswebinfo.monmouth.army.mil/portal_sites/IEWS_Public/rus/ /AMDS.htm > ) for the I-REMBASS Battlefield Sensor System in Ada for the U.S. > Army due to requirements (Ada is a very good large embedded systems > language, it is very much PASCAL like ) to use Ada, but the > compilers were never great. When I wrote Sight It! LOS ( > http://www.n2ckh.com/SI/sight_it.htm ) for the hobby based on all I > had to learn to do AMDS and showed it off to my employer and Army > bosses, AMDS went from ADA to C++ pretty darn fast, which did not > bother me at all. Years later when I stated working in the ASIC/FPGA > world along comes VHDL which is based on Ada, I was glad that those 5 > years up time January 2005 were just spend selling the ModelSim/FPGA > Advantage and other VHDL CAD tools and not actually doing development > in VHDL (or Verilog) which are both facing stiff C++ competition these days. > > PC-ALE and MARS-ALE are both MS C++/MFC developed tools. > > /s/ Steve, N2CKH > > At 11:50 AM 8/31/2006, you wrote: > >Re "Dr. Hopper is also know for her work on "Flow-Matic" business > >language, COBOL and Ada. > > > > >>>I met Grace Hopper when we (Rational Software) validated the first > >Ada compiler in the early 80s. She was inspirational... > > > > 73, > > > > Dave, AA6YQ > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/