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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 20:33:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsxfer.visi.net!154.32.99.10.MISMATCH!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:29:56 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3D0DE5E2.5010904@mail.com> <3D0DF19E.5010805@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1024331397 5259 136.170.200.133 (17 Jun 2002 16:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jun 2002 16:29:57 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26199 Date: 2002-06-17T16:29:57+00:00 List-Id: Now I'm curious. You love C++. You work with C++. Yet you're regularly here on C.L.A? Do you have some other sort of interest in Ada? Or is it that you just want to defend C++ from some of its more ardent detractors? :-) I'm not being critical - just curious as to what brings you here? MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:3D0DF19E.5010805@mail.com... > > I can't speak for anyone else, but I use C++ because I love it. > I am at my current job because I answered an ad which was looking > for expert C++ programmers, and it sounded (and is) exactly like > what I wanted. I find the combination of multiple inheritance, > virtual functions, and automatically instantiated templates to > result in remarkably concise, expressive, efficient, and typesafe > code which is moreover a lot of fun to write. It more than makes > up for the warped C-legacy syntax. >