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: 1994-11-02 14:12:42 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.lth.se!nic.lth.se!dag From: dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Date: 02 Nov 1994 07:35:24 GMT Organization: Department of Automatic Control, Lund, Sweden Message-ID: References: <38p3uk$ouv@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1994Oct28.101326@di.epfl.ch> <394fvv$hnm@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: control.lth.se In-reply-to: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu's message of 31 Oct 1994 23:25:35 -0500 Date: 1994-11-02T07:35:24+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "MF" == Michael Feldman writes: MF> I wasn't really thinking of cases like this, rather of situations MF> where programmers in industry _know_ they are writing plain C and MF> passing it off as C++. Maybe this characterization isn't entirely fair. When converting an organization from C to C++, the conservative approach is to gradually introduce C++ features, starting by just updating the C code so it compiles with a C++ compiler. When that is done, classes, overloading, inheritance, etc. is introduced. The point is that during this transition phase they will not use the full power of C++, and that is probably wise. You could also argue that an application that doesn't use tasking is not _really_ written in Ada :-). -- Dag Bruck