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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Craig Franck Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/19 Message-ID: <5j9287$omc@mtinsc02.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 235901639 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5j078b$b25$1@NNTP.MsState.Edu> <335458A4.4C1D@worldnet.att.net> <5j416b$hau@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <3357B132.3281@us.net> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mark & Zurima McKinney wrote: >Craig Franck wrote: >> >> >count length of time needed for a novice to master the language? >> >C++ requires more than Ada. >> >> It may be take longer, but what if it offers more? There are >> twice as many English words as Russian words. Is this a *bad* >> thing? >> >In my experience C++ offers significantly less as a language. True there >are more add-ons that can be found but I have a been able to find >equivelent tools and libraries with only slightly more effort. Are they portable add-ons? I understand that an Ada implementation must provide (Cohen 1986) four packages: IO_Exceptions, Text_IO, Sequential_IO, and Direct_IO. That is it. When "The Long and Winding Road" to standardization is at its end, C++ will offer a virtual zoo of functionality; C already offers a good bit and C++ piles even more *portable* functionality onto that. In C and C++ the entire standard library is part of the language. (It has been pointed out in an e-mail that there are well defined interfaces to C, Fortran, and Cobol. This does provide a work around for Ada programmers.) -- Craig clfranck@worldnet.att.net Manchester, NH Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. -- Erich Fromm