From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada to C++ Translators
Date: 1998/02/18
Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218124258.25560A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6ceq7m$3nc@universe.digex.net
On 18 Feb 1998, David Weller wrote:
> Jean D. Ichbiah <ichbiah@twsolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> >[Deletia related to somebody asking for an Ada to C++ Translator]
> >
> >> Let's save Mr. Kusuda a bag of time:
> >>
... snip ...
> >> 5) It's a pretty dumb thing to do anyway
> >> (It takes less code to do a project in Ada95 than in C++)
> >
>
> >5) is an academic assertion.
> >
>
> Wrong. It's an unpublished _fact_. Big difference. My work with the
> C++ Booch Components (_hand_ translating them into Ada95) yielded
> around a 10% _reduction_ in overall code. It would be fair to qualify
> where that reduction came from: The template syntax in C++, IMHO,
> stands as one of computer science's most outstanding examples of
> abominal syntax.
Hey, aren't you the guy that likes Perl? ;-)
I'd be interested in hearing how a well designed Ada program that makes
use of constrained genericity gets translated to a well designed C++
program. I haven't been following the C++ standard for a while, but I
thought that there was no constrained genericity in C++, and that the
work-arounds would not really be considered "well-designed".
> those generics. I'm personally starting to pine for something that
> combines what I feel are the best features of Ada and C++, and it
> AIN'T called Java!
Out of curiosity, which are the features of C++ that you would like that
Ada doesn't have?
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-18 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-13 0:00 Ada to C++ Translators David Kusuda
1998-02-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-16 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-18 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Esa Pulkkinen
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Scott Leschke
1998-02-25 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++ Nick Roberts
1998-02-19 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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