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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cb665c6c98eabf5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com Subject: Re: Ada for C programmers Date: 1996/12/28 Message-ID: <5a2tqt$beq@lana.zippo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206380365 sender: usenet@drn.zippo.com references: organization: Perkin-Elmer newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > >In article Rich Maggio 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