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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-25 06:18:35 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!warwick!not-for-mail From: csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Jules) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 25 Nov 1994 14:16:51 -0000 Organization: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Message-ID: <3b4rkj$of@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> References: <3a6oc5$dkh@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3aqrfl$vo@tripe.csv.warwick.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: holly-fddi.csv.warwick.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16958 comp.lang.c:69681 comp.programming:13067 comp.lang.c++:80264 comp.object:17711 Date: 1994-11-25T14:16:51+00:00 List-Id: In article , gmckee@cloudnine.com (Gary McKee) writes: >Actually, "C programmers >> the number of C++ " >will cause an underflow, NOT an overflow as claimed. > >Where did you learn how to read C/C++ code anyway, in an Ada class? :-) > No - I'm doing a Pascal class, and want to do Ada (because Pascal's naff), and I am having to resort to C/C++ to do all the things that Pascal won't (ie Random Access Files, with names that you can actually change). -- /* Julian R Hall csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk Flames should be redirected to /dev/null - I don't know what I'm saying myself so don't expect it to make sense all the time! */