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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "John G. Volan" Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/22 Message-ID: <33AE14F5.717F@sprintmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 251945073 References: Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Reply-To: johnvolan@sprintmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > > On 19 Jun 1997, Jon S Anthony wrote: > > BTW, I've completely given up on C++. > > I think C still has its uses, but C++? I don't think so. > > I do. > > C++ is a very widely used *family-of-languages* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If this is really the case, then this is a serious problem with C++. The lack of a commonly-agreed upon standard that completely defines the semantics of C++ as a _single_ language, with all available compilers reliably implementing all of its features in comparable and compatible ways, must be viewed as a major strike against it. (To be fair, such a standard _is_ in the works, but the irony is that historians may actually take the date of the final ISO vote of approval for the C++ standard as the official date of C++'s death as a fad, and its replacement by the next fad, Java.) :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet.Usenet.Put_Signature (Name => "John G. Volan", Employer => "Texas Instruments Advanced C3I Systems, San Jose, CA", Work_Email => "jvolan@ti.com", Home_Email => "johnvolan@sprintmail.com", Slogan => "Ada95: World's *FIRST* International-Standard OOPL", Disclaimer => "My employer never defined these opinions, so using" & "them would be totally erroneous ... or is that" & "just nondeterministic behavior now? :-) "); ------------------------------------------------------------------------