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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1110288473.850146@athnrd02> <1110326720.837893@athnrd02> Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: <9lK%d.186$FN4.48@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.164.118.168 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1111454149 ST000 64.164.118.168 (Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:15:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:15:49 EST Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: T[OQB\CEBZUWSSD[N[O@_WH@YR_B@EXLLBWLOOAFMAVNDQUBLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:15:49 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9706 comp.lang.c++:46628 comp.realtime:1577 comp.software-eng:5178 Date: 2005-03-22T01:15:49+00:00 List-Id: "Ioannis Vranos" wrote in message news:1110326720.837893@athnrd02... > > It began as "C with classes", but this does not mean "it was designed > for" that only. > And that is the unfortunate aspect of the language: its foundation on C. I once heard Stroustrup confess that, if he had had his druthers, he would not have started with C as the seed language. Many of the original design ideas for C++ were abandoned to keep the language more manageable. For example, delegation was an early idea that failed to make it into the final design. Templates were not in the C++ language until much later. C++ continues to evolve, but much of that evolution seems to follow a course of shoring up things already in the language that don't quite work as one might prefer, or adding a truss here and a buttress there to prevent or enable deficiencies in the language; e.g., cast-away const, a truly silly addition to the language. Finally, one must give credit and admiration to Dr. Stroustrup for the superb work he did in leveraging a mediocre language such as C into a language that has caught on with such a wide audience. One can only wonder, given his genius, what a great language he might have created if he had not been an AT&T employee, forced to start with C, those many years ago. Richard Riehle