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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-29 10:46:35 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!zib-berlin.de!prise.nz.dlr.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!uunet!ois!beckwb From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Message-ID: Organization: Objective Interface Systems, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN version 1.2 PL2 References: <383q62$k0v@truffula.fp.trw.com> <38p3uk$ouv@felix.seas.gwu.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 23:23:35 GMT Date: 1994-10-27T23:23:35+00:00 List-Id: Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote: : You'd be surprised how far you can get by writing C, compiling it : with a C++ compiler, and then claiming to all who will listen that : you've written in C++. :-) :-) There's still the problem of trying to use the C code that didn't get compiled with your C++ compiler. : (Undoubtedly there will be an Ada version of this phenomenon at some : point in the near future. :-)) Fortunately the jump from Ada 83 to Ada 9X is much smaller than the leap from C to C++. -- e-mail: Bill.Beckwith@ois.com | Team Ada Objective Interface Systems, Inc. | dist, full O-O 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 250 | multithreading Reston, VA 22091-5448 U.S.A. | built in