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From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal )
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 17:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
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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.