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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8985ede8fe3d111 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-02 11:17:09 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?] Date: 2 Oct 1994 13:00:59 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <36msgr$qq2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <36h4pc$9dd@starbase.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1994-10-02T13:00:59-05:00 List-Id: In article , Robin Rowe wrote: ><< In the meantime, I have a responsibility to write reliable software. >Ada 9X does that for me in ways that C++ folks are now only dreaming >about. >> > >What Ada 9X dreams am I supposed to be having? How about a >list of ways that Ada 9X can make more reliable software >than C++? > Is this a serious question? Range checking, Type checking within generics, standardized concurrency, safe pointers, etc. Looking at your .sig, I can't tell if the question is serious or if you're trolling. Let's try it this way, here's a couple of papers to read that present a fairly unbiased comparison: "A Comparison of the OO features of Ada9x and C++" in springer lecture notes in cs: "Ada Europe93" pp.125-141 (short paper, good reading, enlightens paradigmae) Also, look at the paper 9x-cplus.txt under /public/ada9x/reports/misc on ajpo.sei.cmu.edu. Neither paper should be treated as a complete survey. Further, neither paper delves into the "corners", ie, support for distribution, information systems, numerics, real-time programming, etc. All of which are standardized in the Annexes. -- Proud (and vocal) member of Team Ada! (and Team OS/2) ||This is not your Ada -- Very Cool. Doesn't Suck. || father's Ada For all sorts of interesting Ada tidbits, run the command: ||________________ "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) ObNitPick: Spelling Ada as ADA is like spelling C++ as CPLUSPLUS. :-)