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-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.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++ Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:38:47 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1111718335.705081@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> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <395uqaF5rhu2mU1@individual.net> <1110329098.642196@athnrd02> <1110361741.551255@athnrd02> <422edaec$0$26554$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1111464133.508323@athnrd02> <1111508368.393411.6450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1111522653.164049@athnrd02> <9Gi0e.815$FN4.52@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <25875118.D6KecKHI6J@linux1.krischik.com> <1111665559.548750@athnrd02> <17104702.P6L5DqsbOq@jellix.jlfencey.com> 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 1111718335 15826 193.92.150.73 (25 Mar 2005 02:38:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:38:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <17104702.P6L5DqsbOq@jellix.jlfencey.com> Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp16-adsl-51.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9952 comp.lang.c++:47159 Date: 2005-03-25T04:38:47+02:00 List-Id: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote: > That would simply depend on your definition of "intermediate". :) ... which is knowing between 50%-75% of the language. > Little story: Yesterday, a colleague of mine didn't believe me that > realloc() would copy the memory contents if necessary until I showed > him the reference. And he is doing C for more than ten years now. Then he is definitely less than intermediate level in C. Besides that, C90 is relatively small, and he should have learned it *all* by reading K&R 2 in a matter of a few months, in a not-in-a-hurry mode. -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys