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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/18 Message-ID: <1998Feb17.204550.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326061083 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu> <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu> X-Trace: news.decus.org 887766354 25865 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes: > C++ is quite another matter, and I suspect that Ada95 and C++ compilers > are of roughly equal complexity, and the languages are of roughly equal > difficulty to learn and use. C++ does get more and better press. Well, C++ also gets worse press. I believe a network search for pitfalls of using C++ would produce considerably more results. Was that assignment given to someone else in the organization, or is this really a slanted test ? As for the previous discussion regarding rich vs. complex vs. feature count, that would seem to be mainly of interest if your assignment is to "pick a language and use all possible features". I used Ada 83 for 6 years without ever using multiple tasks. It was not needed for what I was doing. I am not sure I have ever used floating point numbers in Ada, but for the things I _do_ need, the features are there. Larry Kilgallen