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: 103376,976a050e0f89277c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP Date: 1998/05/02 Message-ID: <1998May2.105443.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 349607441 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <352A79C2.15FB7483@nathan.gmd.de> <1998Apr10.073110.1@eisner> X-Trace: news.decus.org 894120889 3757 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , gwinn@ma.ultranet.com (Joe Gwinn) writes: > In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >> I am always suspicious of people lumping C/C++ together in one breath as > though >> they are one language. They are most definitely NOT one language. > > Of course not, but close enough for my purposes. There is after all a > more than passing relationship between C and C++, and Ada95 is close to > neither. In a discussion of managers who don't know anything about choosing a language, C and C++ decisions are equivalent in the vast majority of cases. The manager thinks the language being used is C++ because that is the compiler which was purchased. The worst defect of C++ may be the ability to code in C. Cultural difference make this less of a problem for Ada compilers that have the ability to drop into assembly language. Larry Kilgallen