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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: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:52:41 +0100
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Boh, the flaming here has been pretty low. 
> 
> 
> Yes.  That's refreshing.
> 
> 
>>...In fact I'm getting very
>>interesting info from both fronts and both languages.
> 
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> "Interesting", indeed.  ;-)  Unfortunately, about half of this
> information is complete nonsense -- about both languages!  Plus some
> misinformation about what optimizing compilers can and cannot do, thrown
> in for good measure.

Yes. Quite some biased/unfounded stuff but for people fairly familiar 
with both languages, the eventual gold seed in the mud is worth the long 
thread.

Regards!