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: 2001-07-20 10:19:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B585BBA.7C4BBA3D@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? References: <3B59CD72@MailAndNews.com> <3B5573DA.5ABA8EA7@earthlink.net> <9j94gj$1uk6$1@norfair.nerim.net> <3B581E6B.6FB1DAEF@earthlink.net> <9j9cip$238u$1@norfair.nerim.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:19:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.123.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 995649598 158.252.123.56 (Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:19:58 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:19:58 PDT X-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:17:17 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10357 Date: 2001-07-20T17:19:58+00:00 List-Id: Bertrand Augereau wrote: > > That's right it's not as much automated as in Ada (anyway there's no value > range in C++), it is merely a "technique", but you can do really nice stuff > with this. Well sure! But when comparing programming language capabilities you don't normally compare a language's intrinsic features with something the developer would have to write themself. > If you only use some subset of C++ features, everybody support these. Maybe > that's why your "C++ experts" buddies don't use that, or because it wasn't > popular (it's still not in fact) at this time. You needn't enclose "C++ experts" in quotes. These individuals created some of the most sophisticated (in the good sense), powerful, and elegant software I have seen in _any_ programming language. They knew C++ through and through. "Traits" is just not a well-known technique for C++, while attributes are widely used in Ada code. Marc A. Criley Senior Staff Engineer Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com