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 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng From: Preben Randhol Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) 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> Organization: PVV User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Debian) NNTP-Posting-Host: 27.80-202-210.nextgentel.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 27.80-202-210.nextgentel.com Message-ID: <42309456$1@news.broadpark.no> Date: 10 Mar 2005 19:39:18 +0100 X-Trace: news.broadpark.no 1110479958 27.80-202-210.nextgentel.com (10 Mar 2005 19:39:18 +0100) Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!news.broadpark.no Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9054 comp.lang.c++:44991 comp.realtime:1210 comp.software-eng:4776 Date: 2005-03-10T19:39:18+01:00 List-Id: On 2005-03-05, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > With Ada aside (I find no reason why one should not learn it), C++ is a > powerful and systems programming language, and power implies painful low > level details. However it also provides all major high level facilities, > and if you stick in high level programming it is very safe, while it > maintains the maximum space and run-time efficiency principle. C++ programmers will claim to their death that they are infallible and everybody else isn't. However, none of them seem to understand how ignorant they are... If C++ is safe, then so is a bog. Preben