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 19:14:11 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uunet!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: 28 Oct 1994 15:00:53 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <38rhp5$r44@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <38p3uk$ouv@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-10-28T15:00:53-04:00 List-Id: In article , R. William Beckwith wrote: >Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote: > >: 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++. :-) :-) > >There's still the problem of trying to use the C code that didn't >get compiled with your C++ compiler. Sure. I was just being smart-ass, pointing at the fact that there seems to be a fair amount of C masquerading as C++, so that folks can please their managers or customers. This is anecdotal; I don't have proof. I hope nobody took me seriously - there were _two_ smileys up there. > >: (Undoubtedly there will be an Ada version of this phenomenon at some >: point in the near future. :-)) > >Fortunately the jump from Ada 83 to Ada 9X is much smaller than the >leap from C to C++. Yes. Indeed, I wish we would all agree to make _less_ of a big deal about Ada 9X. There are enough _Ada 83_ success stories out there to tell us, and the rest of the world, that Ada 83 has NOTHING to be embarrassed about. If you have not read all the success stories (I posted a few new ones here last week) grab 'em from the AJPO machine or the Web server. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Not all applications need inheritance (indeed, NONE of the successful projects have used inheritance because they are all Ada 83); not all applications need the improved tasking and protected types. The niceties in Ada 9X are an _improvement_ on something that is starting out as a damn nice invention to begin with. In the heat of discussion of Ada 9X details, let's try not to forget that. And tell your friends. 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.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------