Re: ada vs. cpp

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

On 4 Oct 2001 05:13:44 GMT, David Starner
<dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:08:42 -0400, Pi <pi3_1415926536@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> Remember that Ada is at his very best if you give him few
>> input, billions of calculations on numbers and than few output.
>
>"her" very best. I guess it's very debatable, though . . .
>
>> You say that it's text-based.
>> Do you have to parse the text-input?
>> In this case I would consider using Perl[1] for the parsing
>> and than the actual treatement in Ada.
>> (Strings aren't Ada's strength)
>
>Strings aren't Ada's strength, but Ada isn't terribly weak in strings. I
>don't see any problem in parsing the input using Ada. 

Sorry, but Ada is one of rare languages which are able to manipulate
strings allocated on the stack. IMO strings are indeed one of Ada
strengths, especially if you need an efficient parsing code. [Usually
parsing does not require strings allocated on the heap. But I you
want, well, Ada has them too.]

In any case, as many have pointed, it is a bit ridiculous to compare
Ada's strings with C++ having no strings at all.

Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov