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: 103376,599b13f801b0f9eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-26 05:51:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!b889b.pppool.DE!not-for-mail From: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ virtual function mechanism in Ada ? Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:52:48 GMT Message-ID: <3b600dd2.859745@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107260244.3cd9e5b3@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: b889b.pppool.de (213.7.136.155) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 996151876 967984 213.7.136.155 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10591 Date: 2001-07-26T12:52:48+00:00 List-Id: 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