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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 10:28:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B5FDFA0@MailAndNews.com> Subject: Re: RE: Ada The Best Language? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:28:02 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:28:02 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10262 Date: 2001-07-19T17:28:02+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B5FDFA0@MailAndNews.com>, Vinzent Hoefler says... > >Original Message From Alfred Hilscher > >>What is the superior feature that justifies the creation of C++ at >>a time where Ada were already long available ? > >Kind of backwards compatibility, I guess. It looks like C. That's close. I believe the original reason was an attempt to drag C coders kicking and screaming into the modern era. So they created an OO language that used C syntax, still understood some C sources, and precompiled down to C (originally). For the most part, I'd say its been successful. The general public does seem to slowly be getting weaned from those crappy old software practices they used to love. You don't hear much serious argument *against* strong typing anymore, like you used to 5 years ago. All the well-reasoned design decisions of Ada are being slowly accepted, and these days the firmest ground a troll can find to stand on is roughly "yeah, Ada's good, but C++ is nearly there". It would still have been beter if someone could somehow have made all those C coders go "cold turkey" and use something better founded, like Ada. But the DoD actually tried to do that, and failed. The most workable poicly is probably just to chip them off slowly. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com