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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,982ed90dd25179ec,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-26 13:57:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: point by point advantages of Ada Date: 26 Dec 2002 13:57:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1040939843 27846 127.0.0.1 (26 Dec 2002 21:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Dec 2002 21:57:23 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32320 Date: 2002-12-26T21:57:23+00:00 List-Id: I am looking for a webpage (or any other source) that explains the advantages of Ada over C++ and/or Java in a point by point manner. I have seen pages that explain the advantages of Ada in a broad sense, and I have even seen some that go into some detail, such as http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/ps/AdaBasis/pal_1195/ada/ajpo/intro/9x-cplus.txt , but I have yet to come across a detailed enumeration of the superior methods of Ada. For example, I'd like to see something like this: 1. Ada has compilable interface specifications. The advantage of this is ... 2. Ada does runtime bound checking. ... 3. Ada has real enumeration types, whereas C and C++ ... 4. Ada allows user-defined types, as opposed to typedefs in C/C++, which are ... 5. Ada has a more integrated environment, with less dependence on external utilities such as "make". ... Suggestions will certainly be appreciated.