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!news1.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!news.tu-darmstadt.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: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:56:39 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1110668203.973765@athnrd02> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> 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 1110668204 6694 193.92.150.73 (12 Mar 2005 22:56:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:56:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp16-adsl-170.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9270 comp.lang.c++:45360 comp.realtime:1393 comp.software-eng:4957 Date: 2005-03-13T00:56:39+02:00 List-Id: dave wrote: > C++ is an object oriented extension to C. It is an improvement on C, but > IMHO not well suited to small embedded systems. However it depends on > your tools and your writing skills. (Java would be better than C++ for > embedded design, but try finding native compilers!) I can't understand why native Java would be better. > Lastly, avoid comparing the languages. Avoid conversations especially > with lecturers and users of more modern languages (c/c++, c# even > Delphi). It will just start arguments. I agree completely with this. > Most Game developers use ASM and more recently C; And more recently (years) C++. :-) > Communication systems requiring > formal definition use CSP & Occam. Schools teach Basic; Actually I think they teach Pascal and perhaps some C. But it depends on the countries I guess. -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys