Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)

Re:Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) by wruza on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:42AM (#38892309)

I remember reading a discussion on it in a year around <= 2000 and it was a general consensus that Ada’s printed standard is too heavy to move around, let alone implement. Military/corporate-ish affinity didn’t help either.

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Re:Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) by MaxBarraclough on Saturday January 06, 2024 @12:18PM (#38893201)

I see pi-e-sigma beat me to it, but:

C++ is at least as complicated as Ada, both in terms of using the language and in terms of writing a compiler for it.

C++ also sees plenty of use in military applications. The F-35's 141 page C++ coding standard is publicly available, for instance.

https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

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Re:Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) by pi-e-sigma on Saturday January 06, 2024 @12:07PM (#38893077)

Compare C++ and Ada. C++ standard is an order of magnitude bigger and more complex and yet C++ is thriving. So Ada's failure definitively is not due to the language complexity. C++ has been supported heavily by the corporate, too. Biggest C++ champion was Microsoft, after all.

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