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From: Vinzent Hoefler <vinzent@MailAndNews.com>
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Subject: RE: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:10:34 -0400
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Original Message From Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
>Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>>
>> Original Message From Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
>>
>> >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"
>;-)

I knew that. Anyway, the answer wouldn't be substantially different. :-)


Vinzent.