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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada to C++ Translators
Date: 1998/02/18
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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  It's an unpublished _fact_.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