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: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/01 Message-ID: <390DB442.53F39A49@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 617845601 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <20000204073443.24976.00001288@ng-ci1.aol.com> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <7EA1B852F5D4D8C6.26EEE9181C80F0DF.0161EA2D9C353253@lp.airnews.net> <01HW.B51C1B6E00F41C2D04BB51B0@news.pacbell.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <8eclae$afj$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <4F706057FEE2A550.BF5FE19AE279EFCD.A55706B3F9D07043@lp.airnews.net> <8eiv08$820$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <390D001C.7433140B@netwood.net> <390D58F9.7CC64B85@maths.unine.ch> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 1 May 2000 13:46:14 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-01T13:46:14+00:00 List-Id: Gautier wrote: > mention. No, seriously, it's rather a problem of "pointy hair bosses" who read > more the words "C++" or "Java" in magazines - or maybe the lack of a really > sexy "Ada Visual Builder++" from Microsoft. Again, nothing with > performance... > That's the most likely reason. While I agree that it would help a lot to get more articles published in journals, there is nothing quite like the advantage of having Microsoft put a shrink-wrapped box on a gondola in a computer store. Its visible and exposes the product to those who never heard of it with a high power endorsement. That and having a bunch of GUI tools and other pre-packaged utilities makes it attractive to developers. I'd like to see such a package sitting on a shelf next to Microsoft's Visual C++ kit. Perhaps with something like Claw for a GUI builder and some nicely documented interfaces to system services, etc. We do lots of stuff around here in C++ not because it is better than Ada, but because we can slap together an application much more quickly with the MFC available to us. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================