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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:49:46 +0200
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codesavvy wrote:
> 
> substantial increase in productivity or it should solve a class(es) of
> programming problems that another language can't.  I know the second
> reason doesn't necessarily mean the language is vastly superior for
> all programming problems but it is something to consider.  There may
> be some studies that show developers to be significantly more
> productive.  If there are I would be interested in reviewing such
> studies.  Also I would be interested in those programming problems
> that Ada 95 solves that C++ can't.

How do _you_ write multitasking/multithreading applications in C++ ?
With a lot (really a lot) of system calls ? Very, very portable ;-) Or
by using a specialised Library ? Portable ? Readable ?

And - some of the "big" features of C++ like exception handling were
copied from Ada.