From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 14 Sep 92 20:34:19 GMT From: walter!obry@uunet.uu.net (Pascal Obry) Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community Message-ID: List-Id: >>Like Edmond Schonberg said in is comparison Ada 9x and C++ : >> >>" Although the C++ community would never state it so baldly, it appears clear >>to us that C++ is to some extent a reaction to Ada. By extending C with some >>of the best ideas of Ada, C++ did in some measure catch up to Ada " >Ed Schonberg also said in public that he thinks C++ is a more powerful >language than current Ada, and less powerful than Ada 9X. (Stockholm, >earlier this year). Yes, I agree too. This was said about Ada 9x and C++ . -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Pascal OBRY -- -- Room 2D-337 e_mail : obry@bellcore.com -- -- Bellcore -- -- 445 South Street voice : 1 - 201 829 4039 -- -- Post Office Box 1910 -- -- Morristown, New Jersey 07962-1910 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- `` inheritance is surely a good answer, but who knows the question ? ''