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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 5 Mar 2005 16:08:28 -0600
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In article <1110053977.478846@athnrd02>, Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> writes:
> Mark Lorenzen wrote:
> 
>> You can do everything in Ada that you can in C and C++.
> 
> 
> I suppose you mean in the application-programming domain. But I do not 
> think this is true in the systems programming domain, that is efficiency 
> under *severe* run-time and space constraints.

And what guesswork makes you think there would be efficiency problems
with Ada ?

> Also I am not sure if ADA is suitable for library writing, or you will 
> have to switch to another language to do that.

Huh ?

Again, what guesswork makes you suggest that ?

It is even possible in Ada to make the calling convention be the
unsafe C-style interface (null terminated strings, etc.).  But for
better safety in all the languages that might call the library,
it is better to avoid those C conventions.