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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:27:45 -0500 Organization: Ain't no organization here! Message-ID: <39ekaeF61ehlcU1@individual.net> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <42309456$1@news.broadpark.no> <1110517093.881184.281320@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 99ZhiJkNEY++3HlmjWYQNgTupYz/7ISfF3IljtvcWg6Cbjsdb3 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1110517093.881184.281320@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9181 comp.lang.c++:45224 comp.realtime:1317 comp.software-eng:4885 Date: 2005-03-11T17:27:45-05:00 List-Id: Jerry Coffin wrote: > Thinking of Java as a safer C++ betrays misundertanding of one (or > probably) both languages. Comparisons between Ada and C++ are at least A misunderstanding shared by the inventors of Java? I watched a 30-minute video tape in which they said they kept having this and that problem, so they invented a language that would not have those problems. One of them held up for the camera a copy of some C++ book with lots of things lined out and said something like, "Basically, we just eliminated all this unsafe stuff." -- Wes Groleau There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. -- George Orwell