From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a9b49a9162025eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-31 09:58:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0901.news.uu.net!spool0900.news.uu.net!reader0901.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:58:39 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bye-bye Ada ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1044035919.383669@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1044035920 reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net 20996 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33654 Date: 2003-01-31T12:58:39-05:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > Well, one Ada proponent has just been asked > to find a new line of work. I'm sorry. I hope things go well for you. > C/C++ is unacceptable It shouldn't be. If you became a good C++ programmer (as opposed to a mediocre one, or a beginner), I think you would find it reasonably straightforward and enjoyable to get your work done. As an Ada programmer, you are accustomed to thinking of C++ according to its flaws. When you approach it from its strengths, it's really not that difficult to produce code that is elegant and correct.