Re: Ada & MacOS

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
> 
>> It's Ada not C or C++. Ada compilers obey and not ignore the ISO
>> standart. Ada compilers come without a 10 page list of ISO standart
>> features not yet and probably never to be implemented. Ada does not only
>> have an ISO standart - it also has an ISO standart test suite. BTW: The
>> only programming language with an official standart test suite.
> 
> I appreciate everything you're doing to promote Ada, but I wish you'd
> learn that the English word is "standard".
> 
> Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Tricky: "standart" is German for "standard". See the problem?

> A company that did Ada validations (or whatever they're called now) also
> had a C++ validation suite. No "C++" compiler vendor ever asked to have
> its compiler validated, and no "C++" compiler they tested ever passed. I
> don't know if that's still true, but AFAIK you can't get a C++
> compiler--that is, a compiler that implements the complete ISO-standard
> language.

http://www.comeaucomputing.com they say they have all the features and they
are the only C++ compiler to implement "export". At least AFAIK. Of corse
all Ada genetics are export ;-).

Martin

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