Re: C++ virtual function mechanism in Ada ?

[dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov)]

On 26 Jul 2001 03:44:49 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
>
>> What about those of us who chose Ada before there was a C++ ?
>
>Hmmm! There can't be too many people in that category, if any. The
>Ada language was standardized in 1983, the same year that the initial
>version of C++ was finalized (work on C++ had started in 1980). It is
>true that there were workable earlier versions of Ada published
>but I don't think too many people committed to Ada earlier than that.

It depends. I remember in my high school years [middle 80s], Ada 83
was already well known. It was not taught [FORTRAN and PL1 were
lectured] but it was recomended for self study and sometimes hotly
discussed. In contrary to this, C was completely unknown [happy life
(:-))]. I learn about a language called C first in 86, got a grip on
an extremely bad C compiler next year and forgot it till the beginning
of 90s. When I wrote my thesis using DEC Ada I did not even know that
C++ existed. I wish that time back! (:-()

Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov