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 11:37:28 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 17:49:29 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9pkrr9$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bbd6287.346843109@news.cis.dfn.de> <9pkco7$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <_pkv7.17320$ev2.27418@www.newsranger.com> 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:13808 Date: 2001-10-05T17:49:29+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:34:18 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <9pkco7$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner says... >> >>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. > > Well, in Dmitry's defense, I'd certianly be willing to defend the statement that > Ada's string support is superior to C++'s. But that's not what he said. He said that C++ didn't have strings. And whether or not you like the way C++ handles it, it does have strings. -- 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