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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 09:24:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!feeder.qis.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC32487.35CD2C2A@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? References: <3BC264B4.EBB8238@worldnet.att.net> <9pv6ad$5ah$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:23:35 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1002644654 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:24:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:24:14 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14053 Date: 2001-10-09T11:23:35-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > up in the semantics of C++. It is both "Elephantine" and "Organically Grown" Where Ada had a single architect (with a watchdog committee) rejecting wishes that would go against elegance and simplicity, C++ appears to have grown by a "_someone_ wants it, and if we reject anything, we'll lose out to perl" philosophy. > Quite frankly, many of the same criticisms apply to C - except for the > "Elephantine" part. I'll concede that C is small in comparison to Ada, but > otherwise it suffers from all the same criticisms one can level at C++. Actually, since they like to complain that we have a "dearth of libraries" let them throw in their stdlib and C is MUCH bigger and MUCH less organized. Long ago, someone complained that Ada is like drugged elephants waltzing in molasses. To which the response was C is like a blindfolded naked lambada on a greased mirror with razor blades in each hand. With C++, is the mirror tilted? This is a troll--don't feed it. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau