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-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: wouter@voti.nl (Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:36:56 GMT Organization: Van Ooijen Technische Informatica (www.voti.nl) Message-ID: <422b699b.1140945082@news.xs4all.nl> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.20.53 X-Trace: 1110141415 news.xs4all.nl 43074 [::ffff:213.84.20.53]:59090 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8761 comp.lang.c++:44375 comp.realtime:1025 comp.software-eng:4557 Date: 2005-03-06T20:36:56+00:00 List-Id: >By way of example, someone in this thread posted an example using a >Day_of_Month type. It would never occur to a C programmer that the day of >the month was anything other than an integer. C was the first language I used to write moderately large programs, and I was always annoyed by the fact that the compiler could not help me distinguish integers that represented different things. Maybe that disqualifies me as a C programmer? Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------ http://www.voti.nl Webshop for PICs and other electronics http://www.voti.nl/hvu Teacher electronics and informatics