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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 07:37:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp Date: 5 Oct 2001 13:31:51 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9pkco7$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bbd6287.346843109@news.cis.dfn.de> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e53d2.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13790 Date: 2001-10-05T13:31:51+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:50:09 GMT, Dmitry Kazakov wrote: > In any case, as many have pointed, it is a bit ridiculous to compare > Ada's strings with C++ having no strings at all. What's with Ada people going "they designed foo differently, so they don't have foo at all"? C/C++ people can certainly input and process string data, and that's what matters, not whether it's a null-terminated array or a double-linked list of pointers to characters. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis