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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140316486 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <3114d8fb.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: SGI reply-to: austern@mti.sgi.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4g8ook$bce@mailhub.scitec.com.au> ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) writes: > Sorry. I had once heard that Ada was more complicated than C. However, as > many people have posted and told me otherwise, I take the comment back. > > However, I am interested in knowing what the advantages and disadvantages C/C++ > and Ada (or Ada 95) languages have over each other, without having to buy a > book on Ada (as I am unlikely to use it in my profession), especially for > engineering applications. You've asked two questions, not one: C and C++ are very different languages. C and C++ both have strong points and weak points, but you definitely should not confuse them. -- Matt Austern SGI: MTI Compilers Group austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com