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From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ (Ada 0X)
Date: 1997/09/11
Date: 1997-09-11T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199709111312.PAA14929@basement.replay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: umqpvqh5rww.fsf@fabula4-atm.nta.no


On 10 Sep 1997 13:28:47 +0200, ohk@tfdt-o.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
FOU.TD/DELAB) wrote:

> "James B. White, III (Trey)" <trey@osc.edu> writes:
..
> > Brian Rogoff wrote:
..
> > If it's supported in the language, it is portable. Before anyone starts
> > slamming the portability of C++ and templates, realize the situation has
> > changed dramatically over the last few months.
> > 
> 
> Don't bet on that. We still have template classes which are legal C++,
> but which in practice can only be compiled by CenterLine CC (and
> probably other Cfront derivates), but not by g++, and not by Sun CC,
> because of different strategies for instantiating the templates.

"Legal C++"? Since there is no C++ standard, legal C++ is whatever a
compiler that calls itself a C++ compiler supports. To look at it
another way, every "C++" compiler supports a different language.

Ada: The only internationally standardized OOP language.


Jeff Carter  PGP:1024/440FBE21
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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1997-09-02  0:00     ` Ada vs C++ James B. White, III (Trey)
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1997-09-05  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-05  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-09-05  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-08  0:00         ` Ada vs C++ (Expression Templates) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-08  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-08  0:00       ` Ada vs C++ Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-08  0:00         ` Ada vs C++ (vs Lisp) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-08  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09  0:00             ` Ada vs C++ (Ada 0X) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-09  0:00               ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-10  0:00               ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-09-11  0:00                 ` Anonymous [this message]
1997-09-11  0:00                   ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-09-09  0:00       ` Ada vs C++ Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-09  0:00         ` Ada vs C++ (high-performance libraries) James B. White, III (Trey)
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