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From: "Hans Malherbe" <hans.malherbe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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> support efficient, real-time safe environments

Can you explain the "real-time" part?

Reading this thread, it seems to me Ada's focus is on safety rather
than efficiency.
These safety constraints also tend to limit expressiveness. Not that
safety is bad, just that it's not free.

>C++ was designed to produce an object-orientated
>extension to C.

An all too common misconception.
Even if it was, it is used today in ways the designers could never have
foreseen or thought possible.