From: wv@fiam.net (Wil)
Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS)
Date: 2000/03/10
Date: 2000-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38c85476.1996324@news.fiam.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 952461466.12261.0.nnrp-12.d4e5bde1@news.demon.co.uk
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:37:37 -0000, "Mike Dimmick"
<mike@dimmick.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Thank God Stroustrup never borrowed tasks from Ada. Otherwise the
standard never gets done. On the other hand, C++ could go for
another 10 years without a standard, and yet, enjoy a popularity
than (standardized) Ada can only dream about.
>As an example of this, try compiling some of Stroustrup's examples from
>'The C++ Programming Language'. I'd advise anyone considering flaming
>C++ to look at this book to see what it's truly capable of, and how you
>should now program in C++ given the standard language and its
>library.[1] The C++ standards committee stole quite a few ideas from
>Ada95.
>
>--
>Mike Dimmick
I can't. I am typing this from an OS written in C ! Will that Ada OS
ever get done, or is it just a hoax?
>[1] The first rule is, forget anything and everything you ever knew
>about C.
>
Will
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-18 0:00 Ada 95 based RTOS xaplos
2000-02-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-02-21 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Majka
2000-02-22 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-22 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-26 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS) Marin D. Condic
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gary
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Gary
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Wil [this message]
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Ada OS again " David Starner
2000-03-11 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-24 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Ada 95 based RTOS Ted Dennison
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
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