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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-22 03:43:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed3.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!south.jnrs.ja.net!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:48:15 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: References: <95db0572.0404142153.431fd058@posting.google.com> <566e2bfb.0404181753.2844342f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: south.jnrs.ja.net 1082630618 4281 193.62.183.204 (22 Apr 2004 10:43:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@south.jnrs.ja.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:43:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:31071 comp.lang.ada:7405 comp.lang.eiffel:710 comp.object:10979 Date: 2004-04-22T11:48:15+01:00 List-Id: Calum wrote: > In terms of "raw power", both languages are Turing powerful (if we > ignore the "can a finite computer be Turing complete" pedentry). So > power in what sense? What's really nice and neat to do in Eiffel that > is difficult in C++? Give some source code, or at the very least a link > to an article. http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/eiffel/index.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je School of Computing Maths & IS | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------