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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
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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.