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From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: 19 Jul 2001 20:49:25 GMT
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In article <9j796h$b2t$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic wrote:
>> > What programming problems does C++ solve that Assembly language can't?
>>
>> Portable programming.
> You mean like when I write a program with MSVC++ on a Windows platform and
> it just moves seamlessly over to a Sun/Unix platform and compiles without
> any changes with the GNU compiler?

I don't care about MSVC++.
MS is known for making things unportable, embrace'n'extend
is their `bussiness strategy'.

If it ports among Unices, it's portable.
Assembler certainly doesn't.

> (This whole thread has *got* to be a cleverly contrived troll. Can you
> believe the explosion of responses? Its almost like insulting someone's
> wife, religion or pickup truck... Iresistable bait!)

You know, it's Usenet.