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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 251211400 References: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 19 Jun 1997, Jon S Anthony wrote: > > PS: I bought that book when it came out, in 1991. I was trying to use it > > with SGI's version of CFront 3.0. Templates, nested classes (which are not > > as useful as Java's inner classes) and exceptions were unusable then, and > > still so several years thereafter. > > It is rather amazing, isn't it. BTW, I've completely given up on C++. > I think C still has its uses, but C++? I don't think so. I do. C++ is a very widely used *family-of-languages* which will be with us for a long time. Certainly if I had my druthers, there would be little new C++ written and lots of new Ada (which I think is your point), but even in that better world there would be C++ written in the maintenance of existing code. There is also a fairly large pool of C++ programmers out there, and a large number of projects cranking out code. So there probably is a use for C++ qua C++, even if we could make technical arguments that Ada can do the job "better". IMO, its really a question of degree only. All computer languages fundamentally suck. I just happen to find Ada's flaws far more palatable for those programming tasks for which C, C++, and Fortran are often used. -- Brian