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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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 23:23:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Vinzent Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Ada The Best Language? Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:23:02 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3B5F6460@MailAndNews.com> X-InterChange-Posted-By: vinzent@MailAndNews.com Sender: Vinzent Hoefler X-EXP32-SerialNo: 50000000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: InterChange (Hydra) News v3.61.08 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10306 Date: 2001-07-20T02:23:02-04:00 List-Id: Original Message From Ted Dennison >In article <3B5FDFA0@MailAndNews.com>, Vinzent Hoefler says... >> >>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. > >That's close. I believe the original reason was an attempt to drag C coders >kicking and screaming into the modern era. Yes. I think the same applies to Java. Mmh, and I haven't seen C# yet. But it "sounds" as it looks like C still. >It would still have been beter if someone could somehow have made all those C >coders go "cold turkey" and use something better founded, like Ada. Yes. Call it lazyness. Let's do tomorrow, what we did today, because we have done it yesterday. Something like that. Vinzent.