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: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:01:43 GMT Organization: Van Ooijen Technische Informatica (www.voti.nl) Message-ID: <422b6f4c.1142401556@news.xs4all.nl> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <87eket97gp.fsf@insalien.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.20.53 X-Trace: 1110142902 news.xs4all.nl 43074 [::ffff:213.84.20.53]:59090 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8768 comp.lang.c++:44383 comp.realtime:1032 comp.software-eng:4564 Date: 2005-03-06T21:01:43+00:00 List-Id: >Ada can teach C++ how to do templates properly. I am definitely an Ada fan, but C++ templates are much much more powerfull. AFAIK C++ is the only language in which you can create a 'unit' based type system that is almost fully compile-time checked. Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------ http://www.voti.nl Webshop for PICs and other electronics http://www.voti.nl/hvu Teacher electronics and informatics