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: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-28 23:37:54 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!zib-berlin.de!prise.nz.dlr.de!news.dfn.de!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Date: 27 Oct 1994 16:52:36 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <38p3uk$ouv@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <383q62$k0v@truffula.fp.trw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-10-27T16:52:36-04:00 List-Id: In article , R. William Beckwith wrote: >David Emery (emery@goldfinger.mitre.org) wrote: > >: If you think Ada83 is bad, try to figure out how to integrate C++ >: with anything besides C! > >Integrating C++ with C isn't always easy either. > True, but one can do it quite easily by simply avoiding the ++ part.:-) You'd be surprised how far you can get by writing C, compiling it with a C++ compiler, and then claiming to all who will listen that you've written in C++. :-) :-) (Undoubtedly there will be an Ada version of this phenomenon at some point in the near future. :-)) Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Non illegitimi carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------