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From: Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:43:31 +0200
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Martin Dowie wrote:

>> There is no variability concerning ISO C++ features these days.
> 
> 
> You've been lucky then... ;-)
> 
> The last time I tried to port any C++ was between VxWorks and Borland... 
> complete nightmare! And that wasn't so long ago...
> 
> But YMMV.


The first C++ standard has been relatively recent (1998). In the 
contrary Ada's has been probably around since the '80s. :-)


So it makes some sense that only the last couple of years we are getting 
 >98% conformance. Also to not forget the fact that C++ is a large language.



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Ioannis Vranos

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