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From: Chris Powell <chris.powell@rrds.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/10
Date: 1999-12-10T14:48:31+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <385112AE.7E2CFA9@rdel.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe

Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
> Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> a �crit dans l'article
> <829rbv$a8m$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>...
> > Smalltalk is certainly a nicely designed language. However,
> > if one is serious about object-oriented programming,
> > Ada is an excellent choice. The only appropriate alternative
> > to Ada, for serious OOP, is probably Eiffel.
> 
> I second that. For me the 2 bests designed languages for serious
> (read industrial) OO development are Ada and Eiffel.
> 
> Pascal.
> 

I would not recommend Ada 95 for OO development. Okay, it has all the
benefits of Ada 83 for type safety, etc, but the syntax of its class
programming constructs seems to make the code long winded, obscure and
error prone. I can give examples if anyone is interested/disagrees.

I suppose C++ is a swear word in this newsgroup, but I prefer it, even
though I preferred Ada 83 to C. C++ is more type safe than C, the
Standard Template Library (if used) can protect from memory leaks, array
bounds checking, etc; the sorts of problems that made C unsuitable for
'industrial strength' development. (Ironically, C has been used for lots
of very serious software, though).

Chris.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-26  0:00 Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Robert
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
1999-11-26  0:00   ` Andreas Winckler
1999-11-26  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-04  0:00   ` Richard D Riehle
     [not found]     ` <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-10  0:00       ` Chris Powell [this message]
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Simon Wright
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12  0:00                 ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-15  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-20  0:00               ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-12-16  0:00             ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Rakesh Malhotra
1999-12-21  0:00                 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-21  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-14  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-15  0:00                   ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-15  0:00           ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-15  0:00             ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-21  0:00             ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-22  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-13  0:00         ` DuckE
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-23  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-23  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-27  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-27  0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-12-14  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-15  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-15  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-16  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-16  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-17  0:00     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-18  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-20  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22  0:00 Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ ( Ehud Lamm
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