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From: "Bertrand Augereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:26:45 +0200
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> I'm no expert, but portability is an important consideration (to me and to
> others).  In some cases with Ada 95 it is possible to eliminate the need
to
> change an application at all, though this is rare (but doable!).  In many
cases,
> there is the possibility to wrap the dependancies in a few wee modules and
> change those.  While you can do this in C(++) it's a lot harder to
maintain and
> even get right.

Leaving concurrency issues, why so? You can encapsulate system-dependant
stuff as much in C++.

> Ada 95 on the other hand gives you the ability to specify the layout of
> structures with greater precision (in general).  This gives it an edge
over C++.

What do you mean?