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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140856009 distribution: world references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <3114d8fb.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: Princeton University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4gj8f3$mr4@usenet.rpi.edu> gentrj@sage3101-21.its.rpi.edu (Ghost In The Machine) writes: Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote: : Actually the source of this incorrect viewpoint often stems from lack : of familiarity with C++ (you can sort of guess this from anyone who : writes C/C++ as though it were one language). It is remarkable how many : people think they know C++ becaus they program in it, and yet they are : unaware of exceptions, namespaces and the standard template library. : And try seeing how many C++ programmers really understand the overloading : semantics in C++. Hmmm ... a professor at mine is one of the fine fellows who developed the standard template library. That right there would lead me to believe that he "understands" C++ by your estimation. He also seems to recognize the features of exceptions, namespaces, etc. Yet, he has been talking in class the past several classes about Ada95's advantages over C++. So, it would seem that not everyone who says that Ada95 is better then C++ simply "doesn't understand C++" .... Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't is the case that Robert is arguing against those who say "C/C++ is better than Ada" and not the other way around? -- -Matthias