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: 103376,198c6302c4a0b0d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-20 10:16:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-west.eli.net!telocity-west!TELOCITY!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3c1dc786@pull.gecm.com> <1008601517.470745@edh3> <1008626816.690418@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <9vls3v$en1$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3C1E941C.5010402@mediaone.net> <1008697855.857274@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3C20FC47.9B7DFCC5@spamcop.net> <3C20FD90.1020100@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper 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, 20 Dec 2001 13:16:02 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:16:02 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18156 Date: 2001-12-20T18:16:02+00:00 List-Id: In article <3C20FD90.1020100@mediaone.net>, Ed Falis says... > >> Would be interesting to see what Joyner has to say about Ada. >> If he knows anything about it, that is. > > >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. > >- Ed > > > > --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.