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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator
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* Bobby D. Bryant:

>> Implicit instantiation of templates, for example.  Low-overhead
>> destructors, parameterized exceptions and multiple inheritance come to
>> my mind, too.  And there is wild pointer arithmetic, of course.
>
> Is any of that a reason to re-architect working code?

Depends.  RAII can be quite an advantage.

Of course, rewriting code is almost always a mistake, even if the code
quality is less than stellar.  But I can understand companies
(especially those with smaller development teams) which migrate away
from Ada for lack of commercial *and* community support on their
favorite platforms.