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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: JR Crosmer Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/24 Message-ID: <312FDB27.4B83@inav.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141172123 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4ggshe$7bk@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4gmp2o$ian@ux1.lmu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Internet Navigator, Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ray Toal wrote: > > ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote: > > >(4) C++ in particular has been changing very rapidly. It seems as if every > > time I turn around there is a new keyword. What is the status of the plain/ordinary/but very noticably forgotten boolean? It seems that the biggest difficutly that run into is that everybody needs/wants to declare a new version (and they are not all compatible!). Because C/C++ were never polite enough to provide it to begin with (0 or non-zero is hardly a good substitute) we end up either creating the (ITEM, NON_ITEM) form, create yet another version (my latest is BooleaN, { FalsE, TruE } ). I think I remember something about BOOL in one of the C or C++ stds. Which compilers use it? (Borland does not, at least thru 4.0). As you can tell from the tone of this post, I would be much happier to have a language that provides a few comforts and niceties, i.e., Ada, but I haven't yet been able to convince my cohorts and managers to come along. JR Crosmer [Loving Ada, but not using IT!]