Re: The greatest feature of the language is ....

["Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>]

I've received a number of adverts from Bertrand Meyer's company
offering courses in .NET and associated technology.  Apparently he's
gotten Eiffel into the mainstream of Microsoft's plans (not as their
primary language of course, but as one of many available).  Anybody
know more about how this works, and how Ada could fit in?

<Soeren.Henssel-Rasmussen@nokia.com> wrote in message
news:1783411C46BCD21182E20008C7EAA09201A1521E@coeis01nok...
> |Richard Riehle:
> |
> | C# has added more accessibility levels, cleaned up many of the C++
> | problems with pointers, has a more Ada-like model for importing
> | compiled library units, and lots of other features that will look
familiar
> | to the Ada programmer.
> |
> | The enemy may have been C++, but that was  an easy target
> | because of is messy rules, absurd syntax, and crazy semantics.
The
> | challenge for Ada, in the future, may be C#, a language
characterized
> | by more rigor and greater reliability that we have seen in other
members
> | of the C family of languages.
> |
> | C# will be included in the Visual Studio release 7.   It is going
to be an
> | important language.
>
>
> As Anders Hejlsberg is one of the principal C# designers - and one
of the
> Godfathers of Pascal and designer of Borland Delphi - is is easy to
> understand the link to the Algol/Pascal/Ada language family. C# will
be an
> important language on the PC platform w/ MS technology "underneath"
... but
> if it will be able to have the same general impact of Java, idunno.
>
> Ada is and will for many years be an important language and also be
> influencial on many "new" languages design to come. Just see PL/SQL
used as
> a scripting language for stored procedures by Oracle relational
databases.
>
> /soren
> Soren Henssel-Rasmussen
>
>
>