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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!12.120.4.37!attcg2!attcg1!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 8 Mar 2005 09:53:16 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: <7xbqRcXz6sXs@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1110297160 12766 192.135.80.34 (8 Mar 2005 15:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8863 comp.lang.c++:44608 comp.realtime:1067 comp.software-eng:4620 Date: 2005-03-08T09:53:16-06:00 List-Id: In article <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "Hans Malherbe" writes: >> support efficient, real-time safe environments > > Can you explain the "real-time" part? > > Reading this thread, it seems to me Ada's focus is on safety rather > than efficiency. Many of these checks have been described as being compile-time checks. A goal of fast compiles should not dominate. > These safety constraints also tend to limit expressiveness. Not that > safety is bad, just that it's not free. Nobody has come up with something that cannot be expressed in Ada (or in C++ for that matter). Ada code is more verbose, on the grounds that code is read more often than it is written (or at least it should be).