Randall, (01)
I strongly agree with your characterization: (02)
> There is virtually nothing in common between FORTRAN and C. As to
> your "jaundiced view," little could be further from the truth. C is a
> challenging language to program in owing to its very low-level
> formalisms, its deliberate refusal to abstract away many of the
> characteristics of the hardware targeted by its code generator and its
> silent acceptance of many programs that are non-portable and / or
> flatly incorrect. (03)
Yes, indeed. The goals for Ada were to design a language that would
reduce or eliminate such problems. (04)
> The "jaundiced" characterization of C is that it's a portable assembly
> language. (05)
A related comment was "assembly language with semicolons". (06)
John (07)
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