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From: ichbiah@twsolutions.com (Jean D. Ichbiah)
Subject: Re: Ada to C++ Translators
Date: 1998/02/19
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On 18 Feb 1998 09:12:06 -0500, dweller@universe.digex.net (David
Weller) wrote:


> >The namespace concept helped a lot.  My impression of C++ is that
> >it is a huge language and that you can easily get lost.  But if you
> >start from a clean model, it is easier to restrict yourself to a
> >manageable subset.
> >
> 
> I, too, work in C++ every day.  Unfortunately, finding developers that
> can exercise "feature restraint" is a rare occurrence :-)

Right.  But my point is precisely that if you start with
a feature restrained original, you end up with a 
feature restrained conversion

> Namespaces are nice, but most compilers still don't handle the
> combination of namespaces and templates very well (as well as numerous
> other things :-( )

Yes this is the C culture.  In five years of work with the Delphi
compiler (and predecessors) I found one obscure bug in the RichEdit
implementation for MT.

In two weeks with the MS Visual C++ 5.0, I had already stumbled over
several major bugs, one of which required partial recoding.






Jean Ichbiah
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