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From: mjsilva697@earthlink.net (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
Date: 5 Oct 2001 18:05:12 -0700
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<uelojnzgm.fsf@wanadoo.fr>...
> Pi <pi3_1415926536@yahoo.ca> writes:
> 
> > Hmm, Objects ...
> > 
> > 1st : Ada will help you find more bugs at compile time than C++
> > So your developpement time tends to be faster.
> > But consider that interactions with the OS are more difficult.
> > Not much more, but slightly.
> 
> Ok.

Except for those OS functions that are much easier in Ada, like tasks,
critical sections (protected objects), time, memory pools, ...

BTW, I think Ada would be an excellent language for your roguelike
game.  I was going to do one myself to do some Ada-ing, but decided to
work on a CPU simulator instead.

Mike