Re: Passing an Ada array to a C function

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"David Botton" <David@Botton.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1000953137.8671.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> Depends on the age of your compiler. C and C++ were designed by committee
> (to "have fun") unlike Ada so things are very rarely concrete.
> 
> > void My_C_Func (char* s);
>  
> > void My_C_Func (const char *s);
> 
> 
> David Botton


I don't think it is fair to claim that C and C++ were
designed by committee any more than Ada was.

In all three cases, the basic language design was the work
of a single coherent design team (in the Ada case, this was
more of a team, in the C++ case, more of an individual).

The preliminary design was then debated and (significantly)
modified by a committee (Ada 95 would not have looked the
same if the design team had been able to follow only its
own preference :-)

Let's not make the mistake of bashing C and C++ where 
the bashing is not fair :-)