From: "James B. White, III (Trey)" <trey@osc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ (vs Lisp)
Date: 1997/09/08
Date: 1997-09-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <341404B4.13CB@osc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5v0lba$jnv$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
> "James B. White, III (Trey)" <trey@osc.edu> writes:
> >Ada may have advantages over C++, but only C++ allows these incredibly
> >powerful programming techniques.
>
> False. Lisp people know this kind of meta-programming as a very old
> technique indeed.
Let me clarify my statement. The combination of expression templates
*and* operator overloading *and* function inlining *and* efficient
compilers allows the creation of elegant interfaces that result in code
that rivals optimized hand-coded FORTRAN in performance. As far as I
know, this is true only of C++. If it is true of Lisp or anything else
(like Ada), I'd like to know!
--
James B. White, III (Trey)
Ohio Supercomputer Center
trey@osc.edu
<http://www.osc.edu/~trey/>
Phone: (614)292-9291 Fax: (614)292-7168
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1997-09-02 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (Expression Templates) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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1997-09-05 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ Jon S Anthony
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-08 0:00 ` James B. White, III (Trey) [this message]
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (vs Lisp) Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (Ada 0X) James B. White, III (Trey)
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (vs Lisp) Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Ada vs C++ (high-performance libraries) James B. White, III (Trey)
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