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: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/16 Message-ID: <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433123117 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Jan 16 00:32:29 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk>, johnb@invision.co.uk wrote: > Yes you would certainly gain some features that were not > present in C. Whether it made sense to use a crippled C++ > in this way is a much more debatable issue. In my > experience you should either take it all or leave it. If > you start telling developers that "We're using C++ but we > don't use X, Y, Z", you are constraining the number of > paradigms that they are used to working in. Further you > are now creating a non-standard language that looks like > C++ but isn't. The possibility would then be open for > subsequent maintenance or post design programmers to > start using forbidden features out of ignorance. Any shop that cannot establish and enforce coding conventions is out of control and should not be doing any software production at all. Any programmer who is uncomfortable with following an established set of conventions is also out of control and should be got rid of. The industry simply cannot afford such a level of incompetence. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own