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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:37:17 +0100
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Date: 2005-03-10T13:37:17+01:00
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Alberto wrote:
>>>It looks like the code was not ISO C++ compliant.
>>
>>In that case, it looks like the compiler failed to detect that shortcoming.
> 
> 
> Well, it's time for me to join the 'American Dentist Association vs
> C++' flame war:

Boh, the flaming here has been pretty low. In fact I'm getting very 
interesting info from both fronts and both languages.

> 1. Is Ada case-insensitive as Pascal? In that case, Ada==ADA

Here, you're the one being insensitive :P

  > 6. I don't know what's the point with "aDA being used in avionics or
> rocket science". Planes and rockets are falling from the sky from time
> to time; a few satellites are lost, too; NASA once failed to mix SI
> units and British unit system (where's the stronger type and range
> checking here?)...

I suppose the point is that people programming things which may cause 
human deaths (I see the jokes coming...) see Ada as a better tool than 
others, for reasons we can argue indefinitely...