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,fc52c633190162e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why learn C? References: <1172144043.746296.44680@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1172161751.573558.24140@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <546qkhF1tr7dtU1@mid.individual.net> <5ZULh.48$YL5.40@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net> <1175215906.645110.217810@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1175230700.925143.28490@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1175494583.376672.93730@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <4FsTh.11652$eC.5816@trndny03> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:19:39 +0200 Message-ID: <8omz1do99g.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PAuztMyhnSwIfdTe6Vt9PMsvzQ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.204.82 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1176394335 88.72.204.82 (12 Apr 2007 18:12:15 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!news.germany.com!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14997 Date: 2007-04-12T18:19:39+02:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > That's largely because C++ types are static compile-time > things, while Ada types are dynamic runtime things. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How so? That is indeed news to me. Regards -- Markus