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Date: 2 Oct 92 06:24:11 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cm
u.edu!goodsenj@uunet.uu.net  (John Goodsen)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community
Message-ID: <1992Oct2.062411.3148@sei.cmu.edu>
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>
>dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck) writes:
>
>I think that to some extent it depends on how precise you want to be.
>I usually simplify matters and tell people that exception handling in
>C++ is "just like Ada."  There are of course important differences,
>and I know them.  If you want to be more precise you must also mention
>influences from other languages, e.g., Clu, Mesa, ML and PL/I.  In
>that situation it is easy to answer "absolutely not" if someone asks
>if EH in C++ is like EH in Ada.
>

See a recent post by Bjarne Stroustrup in comp.lang.c++ for his explicit
addressing of what was and was not inspired by Ada in C++.
Exception handling was not really inspired by Ada.  C++
templates were greatly inspired by Ada generics however.

John Goodsen
goodsenj@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu