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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-10 09:41:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.uncensored-news.com!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bbd6287.346843109@news.cis.dfn.de> <9pkco7$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bc15a16.1317281@news.cis.dfn.de> <9ps9uu$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3BC2FD54.69BA446D@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9pv54d$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bc40a3f.4768875@news.cis.dfn.de> <9q1ker$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp Message-ID: <4S_w7.23234$ev2.31720@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:40:32 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:40:32 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14171 Date: 2001-10-10T16:40:32+00:00 List-Id: In article <9q1ker$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner says... > >My point is, that C has those ordered sets of characters we call >strings. To slap extra requirements on, and claim it doesn't, isn't >conductive to good communication, any more than me claiming Ada doesn't >have integers. Algol 60 didn't have strings; C does. I'm with you on that one. However, I came across this interesting quote from Bjarne Stroustrup in the second edition of his "The C++ Programming Language" (section 1.3, for those interested): --- For example, the C++ language does not provide a matrix type with an inversion operator or a string type with a concatenation operator. If a user wants such a type, it can be defined in the language itself. --- But of course that is really an acedemic issue to your average C++ user, as they will always have access to the stl, which *does* have such a type. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.