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Ada and C: differences as the language for system programming (1993) [pdf]

by hazelnut-tree on 7/10/23, 7:35 PM with 16 comments

• by thesuperbigfrog on 7/10/23, 7:50 PM

  It should be noted that this paper was released before the Ada 95, Ada 2005, Ada 2012, and soon-to-be Ada 2022 standards were published:

  Ada 95: https://www.adahome.com/rm95/

  Ada 2005: https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/h...

  Ada 2012: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-TTL.html

  Ada 2022 (draft): http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/ada22.html

  The paper's abstract states: "Although Ada supports concurrency and can thus be used as a concurrent programming language, it is not generally considered to be an object-oriented programming language."

  Object-oriented programming was added in Ada 95, so this paper is probably not relevant to modern programming unless you are interested in the history of the Ada programming language.

• by uticus on 7/10/23, 9:25 PM

  "Conclusions... Concerning low level programming, C is superior to Ada for its flexibility and for handling pointers or strings"

• by Solvency on 7/11/23, 3:52 AM

  Why didn't Ada take off and why did Rust? Doesn't Ada offer everything Rust does and decades earlier?