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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 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: 2001-10-10 06:35:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:21:46 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9q1i1c$cbg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <9phnic$9g5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <5fkv7.134136$w7.19988807@news02.optonline.net> <9pmpk00a53@drn.newsguy.com> <9puvdc$225$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9pv2f20jf4@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC3DA0A.267D4302@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1002720108 12656 136.170.200.133 (10 Oct 2001 13:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Oct 2001 13:21:48 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14149 Date: 2001-10-10T13:21:48+00:00 List-Id: 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. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Richard Riehle" 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. >