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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,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: "E. Robert Tisdale" Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/08 Message-ID: <3916FB39.A08359CD@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 620758564 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390D001C.7433140B@netwood.net> <20000507071636.16841.00001779@ng-fz1.aol.com> <8f4lso$1mn$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mario Klebsch wrote: > Perhaps someone should introduce ADA > to his team of C++ programmers and let them decide. > They probably are biased towards C++ > but I am convinced that > even C++ programmers can think and see the value of [Ada]. I'm sure that C++ programmers can see or at least ought to be able to see the value of Ada. But the value of Ada is irrelevant. But the fact is that Ada occupies a tiny niche. Most programmers consider Ada to be a special purpose programming language designed for "mission critical" systems. It is still hard to get really good optimizing Ada compilers and most programmers would rather invest time and effort in a language like C++ because they can get jobs as C++ programmers. I don't think that you are going to get many C++ programmers to switch to Ada. I think that we would be better off to re-derive Ada from C++.