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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:11:33 -0000
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> The first C++ standard has been relatively recent (1998). In the
> contrary Ada's has been probably around since the '80s. :-)

Unless you count Stroustrup 1st edition as a standard (a la K&R) in
which case that's circa 1986! ;-)

Initial Ada draft standard are probably pre-1980 - but we as both are
ISO standards they are simply as old as their last standard, so one is
always going to be 'newer' than the other.

One nice point for Ada is that the ISO standard is available for $0, so
in one sense Ada is cheaper than C++! ;-)


> So it makes some sense that only the last couple of years we are
>  getting >98% conformance. Also to not forget the fact that C++ is a
> large language.

Yet it doesn't include so many things! ;-)