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: 109fba,fa07350fd81f7563 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,fa07350fd81f7563 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-21 07:40:39 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!mvb.saic.com!dayuc.dayton.saic.com!hopper.dayton.saic.com!hopperj From: James Hopper Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Date: 21 Oct 1994 11:56:23 GMT Organization: SAIC Distribution: world Message-ID: <388a97$en1@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> References: <383q62$k0v@truffula.fp.trw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hopper.dayton.saic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius Version 1.3b14 X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 12:00:08 GMT Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:7149 comp.lang.c++:33573 comp.object:7636 Date: 1994-10-21T11:56:23+00:00 List-Id: In article <383q62$k0v@truffula.fp.trw.com> Brad Brahms, brad@truffula.fp.trw.com writes: >While I'm not an Ada enthusiast, our company is one of the biggest developers >of Ada software. I have yet to see any large Ada project finish without >some other language, usually in the form of C-bindings, to help! That is >not to say there arn't any, but just a view of what I have seen. This is an unfair and distorted characterization of Ada as being incomplete because it requires in many cases support for other languages. While i to usually have at least some links to C bindings, its kind of hard not to when using a Unix based system as the operating system and all the access libraries for it are written in C! No one no matter how much they like Ada is going to rewrite fully debugged and tested libraries just to have a 100% Ada solution. But in my experience its fairly uncommon except when working with legacy software to have to write part of the sytem in C because you cant do it in Ada. There is a big difference in the two cases, and to lump them togeather as you have provides a very bad example! How many Large C systems get by without writing at least some assembly?? Jim Hopper SAIC