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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:31:48 -0500
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
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Brian Drummond wrote:

> IMO C++ has done us one big favour.
> 
> I was put off Ada for about 20 years becuse of rumours about its size
> and complexity... with the acceptance of C++, that argument is no longer
> valid.

I hear this. Twenty years ago we ran an Ada compiler on a 8088 based
system with 640 Kbytes of RAM running MS-DOS (Janus Ada). I seriously
doubt if one could squeeze a C++98 compiler into such a small box. Ada
might have looked pretty big in 1987. It doesn't any more.

Peter