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From: nasser@apldbio.com
Subject: Re: Ada for C programmers
Date: 1996/12/28
Date: 1996-12-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a2tqt$beq@lana.zippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96Dec23143454@alexandria


>
>In article <E2qu5I.LJr@nonexistent.com> Rich Maggio <maggior@world2u.com> writes:
>
>> As a side note - I am amazed by one thing with Ada: the fact that
>> this stuff has been around since the early 80's.  At work, we use C
>> and C++, and my group is starting to make use of the STL (Standard
>> Template Library).  Everyone talks about how cool this is and how
>> wonderful it is.  I took a look at the book and was amazed to see
>> that I was not looking at anything foreign to me - this was the same
>> sort of thing I was doing in my class.  And the language I was using
>> supported this sort of thing (generics) back in the early 80's! 

Well, some people also are so excited that Java comes ready with ability to do 
threads, as if this is such a new concept, those people have never heared 
of Ada either.

Nasser




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-12-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-21  0:00 Ada for C programmers Rich Maggio
1996-12-23  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-28  0:00   ` nasser
1996-12-28  0:00   ` nasser [this message]
1996-12-23  0:00 ` David Wheeler
1996-12-23  0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-24  0:00 ` Rich Maggio
1996-12-27  0:00   ` David Wheeler
1996-12-24  0:00 ` Dave Wood
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