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: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/03/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143446396 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <4i19mg$vkt@azure.dstc.edu.au> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article adaworks@netcom.com (AdaWorks) writes: > OK, Kevin, > > I'll give you this one. There were some non-portable workarounds, but > this was a shortcoming of Ada 83. The new ISO Ada standard supports > the ability to pass a function of procedure as an argument. Kevin does not appear to realize that it is 1996 and that ISO 8652:1995 has been out for over a year and that compilers (including Gnat and ObjectAda) for it are available. This seems to be why his comments are largely out-of-date irrelevant rubbish. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com