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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) From: Jim Rogers References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <1110072660.15684@athnrd02> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 03:20:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.181.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1110079212 12.73.181.153 (Sun, 06 Mar 2005 03:20:12 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 03:20:12 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8716 comp.lang.c++:44275 comp.realtime:996 comp.software-eng:4527 Date: 2005-03-06T03:20:12+00:00 List-Id: Ioannis Vranos wrote in news:1110072660.15684@athnrd02: > Martin Dowie wrote: > >> It does NOT provide multi-tasking... or fixed-point numbers... > > > C++ provides whatever the system it is used to provides. In Windows > you can create multithreading applications for example. > Of course it can, by calling C libraries such as pThreads. Concurrency has been a native part of Ada since the 1983 standard. > > >> >> >>> In general, we cannot compare the two languages because they have >>> different design ideals. >> >> >> We we _can_ compare them... but you are correct that we must take >> their design considerations into account. Ada95 was design >> specifically to support efficient, real-time safe environments (the >> OP of the original thread question), C++ was designed to produce an >> object-orientated extension to C. > > > C++ is not only an OO language, but it is a multiparadigm one. I agree. One of the original goals of C++ was to produce a language that extends C into the OO paradigm without loosing any of the inherited C capabilities. In 1996 C++ standardized generic programming as another paradigm. Ada is also a multi-paradigm language. In fact, it can be used in all the paradigms familiar to C++. Jim Rogers