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: 2001-07-27 19:10:12 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: 27 Jul 2001 19:10:11 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107271810.618612b@posting.google.com> References: <8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107260244.3cd9e5b3@posting.google.com> <3b600dd2.859745@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.224.77.203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 996286212 24088 127.0.0.1 (28 Jul 2001 02:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jul 2001 02:10:12 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10656 Date: 2001-07-28T02:10:12+00:00 List-Id: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) wrote in message news:<3b600dd2.859745@news.cis.dfn.de>... > It depends. I remember in my high school years [middle 80s], Ada 83 > was already well known. It was not taught [FORTRAN and PL1 were > lectured] but it was recomended for self study and sometimes hotly > discussed. In contrary to this, C was completely unknown Well any high school can teach anything and that does not prove much (some high schools in the states teach creationism :-) But in fact C was of course well known in that period, and any programming language course not mentioning C that was taught in the middle 80's was really decrepit. C is for example definitely a whole generation after Fortran, and to teach Fortran and PL1 without mentioning C at that time in a PL course is more than a bit odd! My first exposure to C was on a PDP-11 in the early 70's. Very nice compiler and a very nice system (a single 128K PDP-11 could happily support dozens of users in time sharing mode :-)