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From: mengyana@legend.com (Mike Meng)
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Subject: Why not combine Ada and C++?
Date: 15 Oct 2001 01:21:58 -0700
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Hi, I am a proficient C++ programmer, who also admire Ada's
reliability and power. After tasted a little Ada, I must admit that I
like it. I alway say to my friends, though C++ is a great language,
it's population is just because it's *C*++. If the most pop PL in
mid-1990s was Ada, the whole life would be much easier.

But the history is history. Though I know Ada's syntax is much clearer
and readable than C++'s, nowadays, most of programmers are familiar
with C-family languages' syntax. Some of my friends don't like Ada
just because it's not case-sensitive!

I'm an SCJP (Sun's Certificated Java Programmer), I clearly remember
what the teacher said, "Java is created with C++'s syntax and
Smalltalk's semantic". I always thought, if there is a language with
C++ syntax and Ada95's semantic, it must be very pop!

I don't know much about Ada, so I can't figure out how is the
feasibility. Please comment it.