Re: Is C/C++ the future?

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1994Oct28.101326@di.epfl.ch>,
Robb Nebbe <Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch> wrote:

>There already is. I've seen a lot of code that looks like Pascal with
>a few cosmetic changes that is passed off as Ada.

Hmmm. You are right - I've seen this too. Not so much of it recently, 
though. I can always tell the students who learned Pascal before Ada -
their subprograms are nested in Main, and deeply within other subprograms.

And those who learned BASIC first, write procedures without parameters
and left-adjust every statement.

This is fun to laugh at, but this is, in my experience, part of the
learning process and the students' code shows their "accent"
from the "mother tongue".  ('Course this is why I think students'
"mother tongue" should be Ada, to the extent that we can make that
happen...)

I wasn't really thinking of cases like this,
rather of situations where programmers in industry _know_ they
are writing plain C and passing it off as C++.


Mike Feldman
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