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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-23 11:43:52 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!riscy.mlc-ratingen.de!news From: st@hobbes.mlc-ratingen.de (Stefan Tilkov) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Ada/Pascal (was Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Date: 23 Nov 1994 19:43:52 GMT Organization: MLC Systeme GmbH Ratingen, Germany Message-ID: References: <3alh02$rgo@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <3atp2k$job@eve.atm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.mlc-ratingen.de In-reply-to: davidsco@atm.com's message of 22 Nov 1994 21:50:12 GMT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16992 comp.lang.c++:80555 Date: 1994-11-23T19:43:52+00:00 List-Id: >In article <3atp2k$job@eve.atm.com> davidsco@atm.com (Davidson Corry) writes: > From: davidsco@atm.com (Davidson Corry) > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ > Date: 22 Nov 1994 21:50:12 GMT > Organization: Attachmate Corporation [snip] > Of course, the omission of strings (and other things like random file I/O) made > it difficult to use Pascal for "real world" programming... for which purpose > Wirth had not intended it anyway. > For what it's worth (no pun intended), C and C++ don't have a fundamental It might interest you that the correct (German) pronunciation of "Wirth" sounds more like "weird" than "worth". No pun intended, of course ;-) [snip] Stefan Tilkov MLC Ratingen -- __________________________________________________________________ Stefan Tilkov MLC Ratingen, Germany st@mlc-ratingen.de Phone +49 (0) 2102 8506 20 Fax +49 (0) 2102 8506 30