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,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 13:25:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCB4606.A7D94FCB@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: Why not combine Ada and C++? References: <9qf6og$a2l$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <0UFy7.18864$gT6.12020912@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:24:38 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1003177522 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:25:22 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:25:22 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14585 Date: 2001-10-15T15:24:38-05:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > I feel C is like my third grade teacher. She accepted anything I wrote > with praise and encouragment, and did her best to understand what the > heck I meant. Ada is more like fourth grade. She wanted writing So C is a 3GL and Ada is a 4GL ? :-) If those acronyms weren't already taken, I'd say your analogy is apt but inaccurate--C is a 2GL and Ada is a 6GL (Java is the 4GL) (No one has invented the 12GL yet) :-) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau