Re: ada vs. cpp

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Yeah, but even if you use just the types in Standard, you still miss out on
all the behind-the-scenes implicit conversions and the ability to treat just
about anything as if it was just about anything else. You also aren't
required to grab pointers to everything in sight and do your own
determination about parameter passing modes and stuff like that. In short,
Ada isn't going to be a high-level assembler for you so there will always be
a crowd that doesn't like it because at heart they want to program in
assembler.

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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
news:3BC3DA0A.267D4302@adaworks.com...
>
> So, if you want unsafe Ada code, simply be liberal with use clauses,
> don't define new data types (use the types in package Standard), make
> everything a subtype of something else, use 'unchecked_access everywhere,
> along with lots of other tricks to make Ada more like C.  Not very hard,
> actually.   Stupid, yes.  Difficult, no.
>