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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:16:02 GMT
Date: 2001-12-20T18:16:02+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CVpU7.5733$XC5.7321@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C20FD90.1020100@mediaone.net

In article <3C20FD90.1020100@mediaone.net>, Ed Falis says...
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>> Would be interesting to see what Joyner has to say about Ada.
>> If he knows anything about it, that is.
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>I believe he has no particular opinion, since he's not familiar with it. 
>  I think I remember him saying at one time that he'd be interested in 
>knowing more.  In looking at the book version of the paper, I'd say he'd 

From the Conclusion (section 5) we have this:

"Ada 95 is certainly aimed at serious software engineering."

That's about the entire extent of his Ada coverage, after about 4 paragraphs on
how Eiffel and Java should be used instead. For someone so harsh on the C++
community for not doing their homework on other languages, I found this a bit
striking.



>be critical of some aspects of the language, but more favorable than he 
>is to C++ or Java.
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>- Ed
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-20 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-17 10:22 Ada / C++ comparison paper Martin Dowie
2001-12-17 14:42 ` Frode Tenneboe
2001-12-17 22:07   ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-17 22:34     ` David C. Hoos
2001-12-17 22:37     ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-18  0:54       ` Ed Falis
2001-12-18  9:30         ` martin.m.dowie
2001-12-18 14:49           ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-18 17:51           ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-19 16:10             ` Greg C
2001-12-20 14:41               ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-20 20:16                 ` Greg C
2001-12-19 20:44             ` Wes Groleau
2001-12-19 20:47               ` Ed Falis
2001-12-20 18:16                 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-12-20 19:12                 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-18  1:16       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-17 22:52     ` Matthew Heaney
2001-12-18 15:47     ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-18 16:20       ` Pat Rogers
2001-12-18 17:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-18 17:28           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-18 19:40         ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-18 20:25           ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-19  0:53           ` was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19  1:47             ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-19 18:20               ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 19:39                 ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-19 19:38                   ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 20:51                     ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-20 17:56                       ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-20 18:48                         ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-20 19:20                           ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-21  3:16                             ` Implicit instantiation (was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore) Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21  3:12                           ` Implicit instantiation (was Re: was " Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21  2:55                       ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-20 20:22             ` was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 20:57               ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 17:44               ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-21 17:51                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-19 18:20       ` Ada / C++ comparison paper Mark Lundquist
2001-12-20 20:27         ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 20:59           ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 14:26             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 14:32               ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 15:11               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-12-20 22:30           ` tmoran
2001-12-20 22:36             ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 14:23             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 18:46               ` tmoran
2001-12-21 19:09                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21  2:46           ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21 14:28             ` Ted Dennison
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