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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newshosting.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!38.144.126.100.MISMATCH!feed5.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:41:26 -0600 Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:49:27 -0600 From: Larry Elmore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050222 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110053977.478846@athnrd02> In-Reply-To: <1110053977.478846@athnrd02> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Trace: sv3-MsekuS1waLFf8enJHLZgPGEfnViDWvBxFiz4oqOisDLWer2Dijgtw5qselHGZceuLDeXROwA0udmn8h!nCY23X9doiycuGf46ZABU9JbXFQ+8sYM7Gxh6GV4kR2stM091jp1ORIo2Pw8U8IGsWOVPzfVaQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8710 comp.lang.c++:44266 comp.realtime:990 comp.software-eng:4521 Date: 2005-03-05T19:49:27-06:00 List-Id: Ioannis Vranos wrote: > Mark Lorenzen wrote: > >> You can do everything in Ada that you can in C and C++. > > > > I suppose you mean in the application-programming domain. But I do not > think this is true in the systems programming domain, that is efficiency > under *severe* run-time and space constraints. I'm afraid you don't know much about Ada and much of what you do know is not correct. That was one of the specific problem domains Ada was designed for -- hard real-time embedded systems. > Also I am not sure if ADA is suitable for library writing, or you will > have to switch to another language to do that. > > I do not say this is bad, since the design ideals of ADA are different > from C++. In effect, we are comparing different things here. No, you only think that's the case. I encourage you to learn more about Ada. You might be very surprised. Also, it's spelled "Ada", not ADA (which in the US usually means the American Dental Association, or the Americans with Disabilities Act). It's not an acronym. It was named after a woman, Ada Augusta Lovelace. No one who knows anything about the language spells it ADA (unless they're on an ancient machine that has no lowercase letters) anymore than they spell "Pascal" as "PASCAL". --Larry