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

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> A good way to compare is to take something that is easy but easily
> fuckupable, like cycling an int between it's bounds in C++.

It is trivial with a wider type (like int64_t) as a base and really nobody needs to do full-cycle over int64_t. This example is nice, but not convincing.

> Implement a
> cyclic buffer in both languages,

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/doc/html/circular_buffer.html

> show iteration over the container.

If you take Ada 2012, make sure to take C++11 (or C++14) as well, for fair comparison:

http://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-ranged-for-loop.html

Note also that containers are much easier for beginners in C++, as they require less clutter at declaration. Try to recode examples from the above link in Ada to see why you would not convince a C++ programmer with such arguments.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com