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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e3feb606f668a7c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: wv@fiam.net (Wil) Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS) Date: 2000/03/10 Message-ID: <38c85476.1996324@news.fiam.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 595423647 References: <88ilp7$bcm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38ADCA44.3B91BF6F@averstar.com> <88qli0$gvr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38B2A2A1.FDCDDFE7@honeywell.com> <88ugrd$7j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <890ght$bih1@ftp.kvaerner.com> <38B3EA94.E3AB4929@maths.unine.ch> <38B41432.88D7389F@quadruscorp.com> <38B47521.1A80B6A1@lmtas.lmco.com> <38B55928.8A0EAB06@quadruscorp.com> <2000Feb24.122253.1@eisner> <897k3c$qgg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38B80EBA.721830@flash.net> <952461466.12261.0.nnrp-12.d4e5bde1@news.demon.co.uk> X-Trace: reader2.news.uu.net 952652041 10674 199.173.190.33 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:37:37 -0000, "Mike Dimmick" 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