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-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news100.image.dk!news000.worldonline.dk.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter Koch Larsen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> Subject: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:02:24 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.79.147.244 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@wol.dk X-Trace: news000.worldonline.dk 1110034943 62.79.147.244 (Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:02:23 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:02:23 MET Organization: Customer of Tiscali A/S Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8644 comp.lang.c++:44159 comp.realtime:932 comp.software-eng:4463 Date: 2005-03-05T16:02:24+01:00 List-Id: "Ludovic Brenta" skrev i en meddelelse news:871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org... > "EventHelix.com" writes: >> What specific features are you missing in C++. Before moving >> to Ada consider this: >> [snip] > >> - You might end up making more mistakes with Ada because of >> inexperience with Ada. > > Wrong. I took that route 4 years ago, and found that the compiler > would catch all my stupid mistakes. When it comes to reliability, Ada > compilers are your friends; C++ compilers are your enemies. Out of curiosiy, could you give some few examples where Ada catches faults not found by a C++ compiler. I assume - of course - code written in modern C++: no casts, functions instead of macroes, a limited use of pointers and so on. Kind regards Peter [snip] > > -- > Ludovic Brenta.