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,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/09 Message-ID: <79piga$8eu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442400143 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <77ledn$eu7$1@remarQ.com> <77pnqc$cgi$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <8p64spq5lo5.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> <77t3ld$nou$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79chc7$ko6@drn.newsguy.com> <79mn6h$bls@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x12.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Feb 09 14:59:28 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <79mn6h$bls@drn.newsguy.com>, mike wrote: > The only reason no one has been able to do it is that it would require > pages and pages on Ada code to write something that does the same as > those 8 lines of C++ code below. Your case would be much stronger if you used the "," operator to compress the entire procedure into only 1 line of code. Ada could never match that! And code that terse *has* to be more readable, right? :-) T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own