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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/15
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Peter wrote in message ...
>In article <77nhuv$29c$3@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk
>(Markus Kuhn) wrote:
>
>> Here my quick comparison between Ada95, Java, and C++, from someone
>> who has used all three languages:
>>
>> Object Orientation:
>>
>> All three are full OO languages.
>
>Uhhh... well actually none of those languages are full OO languages
>because the primitive data types in them aren't objects.
>
>> One distinguishing feature of Ada is that it gives very good
>> low-level control about numerical types and numerical precision
>> in a very portable way. C/C++ programmers have to use a lot of dirty
>> tricks or configuration files to obtain assurances that Ada
>> programmers can just specify directly to the compiler.
>
>I would like to find out more about how Ada handles this.  Where does the
>Ada standard live?
The 32-bit Windows Help version of the standard is available on my FTP
site at ftp://ada95.com/pub/rm95-winhelp/

A hypertext version is available at http://www.adahome.com/rm95/

Other formats and additional documentation is available at
http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada95.html