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,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 251391009 Distribution: world References: Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Brian Rogoff writes: > > It is rather amazing, isn't it. BTW, I've completely given up on C++. > > I think C still has its uses, but C++? I don't think so. > > I do. > > C++ is a very widely used *family-of-languages* which will be with us for > a long time. Oh, it is _used_ all over the place (well, more or less - it's often difficult to glean whether it is just being used as a ANSI C sort of thing.) I was talking about "uses" as in "the best thing to use here is C++". This latter does not seem to have good rationale no matter what the situation: if it is simply C stuff - use C. Numerical stuff - use Fortran. If it is something needing flexible higher level capabilities, sophistication and lower level efficiencies - use Ada (or Eiffel). Implemenations and availability are every bit as viable as those for C++. Something even higher level - use Lisp or ST or some such. > large number of projects cranking out code. So there probably is a > use for C++ qua C++, even if we could make technical arguments that > Ada can do the job "better". I don't mean just "technically". > IMO, its really a question of degree only. All computer languages > fundamentally suck. Right. This I completely agree with. However, a large enough quantitative gap gives a qualitative difference. > I just happen to find Ada's flaws far more palatable for those > programming tasks for which C, C++, and Fortran are often used. I hear ya. But, for me, the degree to which C++ sucks puts it in a class of its own. /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari