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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!news.otenet.gr!news.grnet.gr!newsfd02.forthnet.gr!not-for-mail From: Ioannis Vranos Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 03:30:53 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1110072660.15684@athnrd02> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> NNTP-Posting-Host: athnrd02.forthnet.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: athprx02.forthnet.gr 1110072660 4483 193.92.150.73 (6 Mar 2005 01:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 01:31:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp36-adsl-149.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8707 comp.lang.c++:44263 comp.realtime:988 comp.software-eng:4519 Date: 2005-03-06T03:30:53+02:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > It does NOT provide multi-tasking... or fixed-point numbers... C++ provides whatever the system it is used to provides. In Windows you can create multithreading applications for example. > > >> In general, we cannot compare the two languages because they have >> different design ideals. > > > We we _can_ compare them... but you are correct that we must take their > design considerations into account. Ada95 was design specifically to > support efficient, real-time safe environments (the OP of the original > thread question), C++ was designed to produce an object-orientated > extension to C. C++ is not only an OO language, but it is a multiparadigm one. -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys