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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 14:43:53 +0200
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> > Leaving concurrency issues, why so? You can encapsulate system-dependant
> > stuff as much in C++.
>
> True.  But some stuff is more compiler dependant, than Ada is (although
there
> can be differences between Ada compilers, however it is my understanding
that
> those are clearly documented).

That's unfortunately (for us C++ programmers!) true (especially for
primitive types size), but nowadays, for instance, you can trust some quite
large fundations on any platform : C runtime and STL.
I think if I had to choose a language for this cross-platform consideration,
I would take Java because you get much more things in the API.
Basically for me, considering APIs, Java (+Network) > Ada(+Concurrency) >
C++
So it's just a question of where to draw a line, isn't it?

By the way I do embedded programming (gaming console), and C and C++ are the
only choices, so decision is easy to take! Moreover, C++ is quite classical
so you find developers easily (most of them just code in C with the keyword
"class" thinking that they know C++ btw).
I think if Ada software is better/cheaper to maintain, it is because more
qualified people produce it and that's it.
Those people could make good C++ software too.