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: 103376,257bc0ff954a7696 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Dr Richard A. O'Keefe" Subject: Re: C/C++ cheaper than Ada?? how? Re: Ada 200X Date: 1998/07/13 Message-ID: <35A97554.7C45@atlas.otago.ac.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 370872148 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3.0.32.19980712065953.009dd470@iu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Otago Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Sam Harbaugh, Palm Bay, Florida wrote: > If you haven't looked at C++ in a while look again, the > draft standard ANSI/ISO C++ has new features. Which will, of course, be useless in *portable* programs until 3 to 5 years after the standard is finalised, if the history of C89 is any guide. As things are right now, a student here developed a really snazzy package on system X using "C++" compiler Y and gave it to me on a system Z disc, but the "C++" compiler W on that system choked and died on it. That really is the typical C++ experience these days. One hopes that the eventual existence of (a screamingly complex) standard (still lacking a lot of useful Ada stuff) will change things, but as I'm _still_ waiting for one particular vendor to support something that has been pretty much unchanged in C++ drafts for several years now, I wouldn't hold your breath. > re: Ada 200X - I suggest: 1) Recognize that it is a multilingual world, > accomodate other popular languages. Ada 95 _already_ recognised that, in a far more effective way than any other programming language standard yet in existence. (Mind you, there isn't an _official_ interface between Ada and REXX or Visual Basic, but neither is there an official C++ interface to those things.) There _is_ an Ada CORBA binding...