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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 08:35:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!do.de.uu.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.siemens.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:24:26 +0200 Organization: Siemens AG Message-ID: <3B56FBAA.D7C010C9@icn.siemens.de> References: <3B5FDFA0@MailAndNews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.122.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10250 Date: 2001-07-19T17:24:26+02:00 List-Id: Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > > Original Message From Alfred Hilscher > > >What is the superior feature that justifies the creation of C++ at > >a time where Ada were already long available ? > > Kind of backwards compatibility, I guess. It looks like C. Oh, I asked for the "superior feature" not for the "greatest mistake" ;-)