There are a lot of excellent C libraries (commercial or not) that it would
be stupid to rewrite just for the 'beauty of the language'
If you make an extended use of them, which makes perfect sense, writing all
pragma import and defining appropriate types can be an awfully boring job.
Ada is still not very good for that, and that certainly prevent its use for
some projects.


"Alfred Hilscher" <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> a �crit dans le message
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> Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
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> > Original Message From Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
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> > >What is the superior feature that justifies the creation of C++ at
> > >a time where Ada were already long available ?
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> > Kind of backwards compatibility, I guess. It looks like C.
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> Oh, I asked for the "superior feature" not for the "greatest mistake"
> ;-)