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: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/09 Message-ID: <79pe21$47r$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442370380 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <79k65l$s0t@drn.newsguy.com> <79 <36BF2098.11E0761B@erols.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.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: Tue Feb 09 13:43:31 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: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , bs@research.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) wrote: > Sadly, there is no shortage of misinformation or at least > of relatively ignorant people shooting their mouths off. > Every language suffer from this and every language > community has members who contribute to the problem. > > - Bjarne This is very true. And some of the LEAST effective advocacy for language X consists of ignorant statements by X advocates about language Y when they do not know language Y well enough. You can substitute almost any two languages for X and Y, but I certainly often notice the cases X = Ada, Y = C ++ X = C++, Y = Ada and I particularly wince when I see Ada advocates make totally incorrect statements about C or C++. Obviously a lot of Ada advocates have not carefully read the C and C++ standards. Of course vice versa is even more prevalent. Indeed one interesting difference between professional C/C++ programmers and professional Ada programmers is that the latter at least have read the Ada standard, whereas it often surprises me how many C and C++ programmers are completely unfamiliar with the standards for the languages they use. Certainly this is an important area for better education! Robert Dewar -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own