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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,599b13f801b0f9eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-26 03:44:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ virtual function mechanism in Ada ? Date: 26 Jul 2001 03:44:49 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107260244.3cd9e5b3@posting.google.com> References: <8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.224.77.203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 996144290 9863 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2001 10:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 2001 10:44:50 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10588 Date: 2001-07-26T10:44:50+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org>... > What about those of us who chose Ada before there was a C++ ? Hmmm! There can't be too many people in that category, if any. The Ada language was standardized in 1983, the same year that the initial version of C++ was finalized (work on C++ had started in 1980). It is true that there were workable earlier versions of Ada published but I don't think too many people committed to Ada earlier than that. For a capsule history of C++ see http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history.html