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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful? Date: 1998/08/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 382031177 References: <6qg3on$kjq$2@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <6qrdn4$4ac@drn.newsguy.com> Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > It was instead about the difference in styles between > do-it-right-first-time and hack-around-and-make-it-right-later. Exactly, in fact if you look at my example, the young whipersnaper finishes first. In fact, if the alternate language is PL/1, Fortran, or APL, I can usually program something faster in those langauges than in Ada. (I do code in C, and C++, but slower than in Ada, your milage may vary.) The point was that if it is writen in Ada, when it is done, it is done. I recently "cleaned up" some Ada 83 packages that were still seeing heavy use. The changes to get them to compile under gnat were trivial--no changes in the packages themselves, but the test routines needed Text_IO changed to Ada.Text_IO, etc. However, I did use child packages to clean up the organization and so on. The point is that in four of five of the packages, I was making the first entry in the modification history since the packages were created. -- Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...