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!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!newsfd02.forthnet.gr!not-for-mail From: Ioannis Vranos Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:57:03 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1110329831.983224@athnrd02> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <7xbqRcXz6sXs@eisner.encompasserve.org> 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 1110329832 4622 193.92.150.73 (9 Mar 2005 00:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:57:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <7xbqRcXz6sXs@eisner.encompasserve.org> Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp10-adsl-11.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8898 comp.lang.c++:44683 comp.realtime:1093 comp.software-eng:4649 Date: 2005-03-09T02:57:03+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > Nobody has come up with something that cannot be expressed in Ada (or > in C++ for that matter). Ada code is more verbose, on the grounds that > code is read more often than it is written (or at least it should be). Don't confuse verbose with being comprehensible. Myself that do not know Ada, I cannot understand much when I see Ada code, apart from some Pascal style declarations of variables, procedures and records, and this because I have used Pascal. :-) -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys