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: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-18 07:58:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!mango.news.easynet.net!easynet.net!news-peer.gradwell.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news2.euro.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0901.news.uu.net!spool0900.news.uu.net!reader0901.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0F4AE0.5050207@mail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:59:44 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability References: <3D0C7C0B.5000707@mail.com> <3D0EBE64.2070809@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1024412336 reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net 23358 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26244 Date: 2002-06-18T10:59:44-04:00 List-Id: Chad R. Meiners wrote: > And then we completely degrade into being unreasonable ... ;) Well, yes, I'm being deliberately silly. For a real affirmative defense of why I would rather use C++ than Ada,I would pull out the following three textbooks: _Scientific & Engineering C++_ by Barton & Nackman _Generative Programming_ by Czarnecki & Eisenecker _Modern C++ Design_ by Alexandrescu