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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-28 03:33:21 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!dinews.epfl.ch!di.epfl.ch!Robb.Nebbe From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Date: 28 Oct 1994 09:14:50 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Sender: nebbe@lglsun3.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1994Oct28.101326@di.epfl.ch> References: <383q62$k0v@truffula.fp.trw.com> <38p3uk$ouv@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lglsun3.epfl.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 1994-10-28T09:14:50+00:00 List-Id: In article <38p3uk$ouv@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: |> In article , R. William Beckwith wrote: |> >David Emery (emery@goldfinger.mitre.org) wrote: |> > |> >: If you think Ada83 is bad, try to figure out how to integrate C++ |> >: with anything besides C! |> > |> >Integrating C++ with C isn't always easy either. |> > |> True, but one can do it quite easily by simply avoiding the ++ part.:-) |> |> You'd be surprised how far you can get by writing C, compiling it |> with a C++ compiler, and then claiming to all who will listen that |> you've written in C++. :-) :-) |> |> (Undoubtedly there will be an Ada version of this phenomenon at some |> point in the near future. :-)) |> There already is. I've seen a lot of code that looks like Pascal with a few cosmetic changes that is passed off as Ada. - Robb Nebbe