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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 08:35:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "nicolas" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:38:17 +0200 Organization: Guest of France Telecom Oleane's newsreading service Message-ID: <9j6uhn$mjp$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <3B5FDFA0@MailAndNews.com> <3B56FBAA.D7C010C9@icn.siemens.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.101.131.241 X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 995556727 23161 195.101.131.241 (19 Jul 2001 15:32:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:32:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10251 Date: 2001-07-19T17:38:17+02:00 List-Id: 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" a �crit dans le message news: 3B56FBAA.D7C010C9@icn.siemens.de... > > > Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > > > > Original Message From Alfred Hilscher > > > > >What is the superior feature that justifies the creation of C++ at > > >a time where Ada were already long available ? > > > > Kind of backwards compatibility, I guess. It looks like C. > > Oh, I asked for the "superior feature" not for the "greatest mistake" > ;-)