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: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 15:02:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.72!wnfilter2!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BBE2E1D.2C0A1FFC@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bbd6287.346843109@news.cis.dfn.de> <9pkco7$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <_pkv7.17320$ev2.27418@www.newsranger.com> <9pkrr9$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3BBE01EB.973B7C5C@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:02:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.36.111 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1002319368 12.86.36.111 (Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:02:48 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:02:48 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13816 Date: 2001-10-05T22:02:48+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > > David Starner wrote: > > But that's not what he said. He said that C++ didn't have strings. And > > whether or not you like the way C++ handles it, it does have strings. > > Matter of mismatching definitions. C has what C defines as strings. > It does not have what many languages define as strings. Yes, and C++ has both the C string and an equivalent to the Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String, which is what many languages use for strings. It is just not appropriate to equate C and C++. Since the latest standards for both there is less reason than ever to equate the two languages. The so-called compatibility with C which C++ so loudly claimed has been badly reduced by the fact that C produced a new standard in 1999, after the C++ standard. C++ is very much incompatible with many features in the current C standard. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA