Re: Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers!

[john@mccabe.org.uk]

Dear all,

Please accept my apologies for my rudeness at having not responded to your comments. If you're all still around, here goes....

Jim - thanks for that. It looks good (I found it at AdaIC) but possibly in a lot more depth that I was thinking of.

J-P - thanks too; that looks like a really useful presentation - I imagine I could talk for hours about it but it might be I could've cut it down.

Stephen - thanks - I'll bear the AdaCore stuff in mind.

For what it's worth, this idea never did come off in the end (lack of enthusiasm for the 1/2 hour presentation amongst the rest of the team probably had something to with it), but I found this thread as I thought it might be nice to pick one or two particular aspects of Ada that are so much nicer than C++ and present them.

This was prompted by reviewing a piece of code someone had written where they needed to add an extra parameter to a function call. To try to maintain compatibility with existing code they changed the signature to add the new parameter at the end with a default value. In reality the new parameter was intrinsically tied to an existing parameter that's listed earlier in the sequence and requires a value to be supplied; it just looked wrong to me to do it that way, but it made me think how nice it is to have named parameter association in subroutine calls. Then I thought how nice it is to be able to declare arrays indexed by enumeration types, and so on....

Anyway - enough for now. Thank you all again for your advice; I'm very sorry I didn't reply then!

John