From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal )
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 17:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-05-17T17:28:21-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f8190bc-5362-4182-a40b-7650398670a7@l17g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r6c0sei2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
On May 17, 4:21 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> jhc0033 writes:
> >> But that doesn't make C++ suitable for those either. I think he
> >> rather had scripting languages like Perl in mind.
>
> > I don't think that makes sense in his context and time. The whole
> > comparison was C++ vs Ada.
>
> No, you are wrong. The presentation contains several comparisons of
> Ada with several other languages besides C++ (including COBOL,
> Fortran, Pascal, Eiffel and C).
... very much in passing. Almost all of the presentation is about Ada
vs C++.
Anyway, it doesn't matter what better alternatives to Ada he had in
mind for R&D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-18 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-16 10:56 Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-16 12:28 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-16 13:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-16 14:33 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-16 22:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-05-17 6:30 ` rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal ) jhc0033
2008-05-17 8:28 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-17 9:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-05-17 9:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-05-17 12:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-05-17 9:38 ` jhc0033
2008-05-17 11:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-17 17:53 ` jhc0033
2008-05-17 23:21 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-18 0:28 ` jhc0033 [this message]
2008-05-18 0:35 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2008-05-18 8:04 ` Prototyping with Ada (was: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal) Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-20 10:25 ` John McCabe
2008-05-20 16:57 ` Prototyping with Ada Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-05-20 17:23 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-20 17:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-05-20 23:30 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-21 0:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-05-21 12:53 ` Martin Krischik
2008-05-22 8:43 ` Stephen Leake
2008-05-28 11:32 ` John McCabe
2008-05-28 12:12 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-29 3:27 ` tmoran
2008-05-29 9:41 ` John McCabe
2008-05-31 6:03 ` Stephen Leake
2008-06-02 15:43 ` Britt Snodgrass
2008-05-17 9:45 ` rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal ) Georg Bauhaus
2008-05-17 10:57 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-17 16:49 ` tmoran
2008-05-16 22:56 ` Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal Ivan Levashew
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