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!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.117.148.138.MISMATCH!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeder.wxs.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 20:40:31 GMT Organization: Van Ooijen Technische Informatica (www.voti.nl) Message-ID: <422b6a47.1141116669@news.xs4all.nl> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110053977.478846@athnrd02> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.20.53 X-Trace: 1110141630 news.xs4all.nl 43074 [::ffff:213.84.20.53]:59090 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8763 comp.lang.c++:44377 comp.realtime:1027 comp.software-eng:4559 Date: 2005-03-06T20:40:31+00:00 List-Id: > You can do everything in Ada that you can in C and C++. Computationally speaking you can do everything in 'real' serious language. So for the above statement to have real meaning it needs to be much moer specific. > I suppose you mean in the application-programming domain. But I do not > think this is true in the systems programming domain, that is > efficiency under *severe* run-time and space constraints. No problem with Ada. > Also I am not sure if ADA is suitable for library writing, or you will > have to switch to another language to do that. I don't see why you would want to use another language? Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------ http://www.voti.nl Webshop for PICs and other electronics http://www.voti.nl/hvu Teacher electronics and informatics