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From: mcsun!sunic!lth.se!newsuser@uunet.uu.net  (Dag Bruck)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:11:46 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Sep30.131146.2225@lth.se> (raw)

In <comp.lang.ada> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>
>I'm curious; have
>you had large numbers of people from "the C++ community" denying that
>any parts of C++ were inspired by Ada?

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.

The C++ community as I know it is not afraid to acknowledge influences
from other languages.  People sometimes make rude jokes about Ada, but
that is not relevant.

In my experience, the C++ community is not very interested in Ada,
which probably is a pity.  I don't really understand why some people
in the Ada community spend so much time comparing with C++; isn't Ada
good enough in itself?  Does it really matter much who's influenced
who?  I think it smells of envy because C++ is a greater commercial
success.

		Dag Bruck
		Member of the C++ community

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1992-09-30 13:11 Dag Bruck [this message]
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1992-10-06 18:32 Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community Bob Kitzberger
1992-10-06 15:22 David Erickson
1992-10-06  7:27 mcsun!news.funet.fi!network.jyu.fi!sakkinen
1992-10-05 21:54 To ny Wen Hsun Lai
1992-10-05 21:49 David Emery
1992-10-05 19:50 Val Kartchner
1992-10-02  6:24 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cm
1992-10-01  4:11 Michael Feldman
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1992-09-28 21:23 Ed Schonberg
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1992-09-14 23:23 Pascal Obry
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1992-09-14 16:40 Pascal Obry
1992-09-14 16:03 fred j mccall 575-3539
1992-09-14 15:13 cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu
1992-09-11 21:46 Harry Koehnemann
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