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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-20 06:19:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ailinel.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry Kazakov) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:18:52 GMT Message-ID: <3b5829b6.15345640@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com> <9j3rrd$g71$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <5be89e2f.0107181300.4b4e93d7@posting.google.com> <3B57195E.A3A3FED@home.com> <9j93u6$1ua8$1@norfair.nerim.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ailinel.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.99) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 995635132 23417063 212.79.194.99 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10330 Date: 2001-07-20T13:18:52+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:20:48 +0200, "Bertrand Augereau" wrote: >Don't take it as a troll, but the fact that some people here write C/C++ >makes me think they are not aware of all of the C++ features which make it >(I think) able to compete with Ada95, at least for most common applications. We are developing much more in C++ than in Ada 95, and things that require almost all bells and whistles of C++. So I think I am able to compare. >From my point of view Ada is superior in almost all features you might choose to compare. Of course many things cannot be compared, because C++ simply does not have them. People here could easily provide you with a large list. I do not think it would convince you because "nobody need that crap in common applications". Nevertheless, the most important thing to me is the careful Ada language design, that C++ lacks. I might disagree with this or that Ada design solution, but I always can *rely* upon it. With C++ I must always think which nasty (and usually very well hidden) pitfall brings the nice solution that comes first in mind. Regards, Dmitry Kazakov