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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:53:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> John Hudak wrote:
> 
>> Exactly - because not every programmer is well organized to keep all 
>> the  nuances in their head, and observe them when coding.  
>> Furthermore, when components are integrated and one component talks to 
>> another is when the big debugging problems surface.  One has to look 
>> at the history/motivation of Ada development versus that of 
>> C/C++...Ada certified compilers and tools strictly enforce the 
>> semantics of the language.  It has been my experience that there is a 
>> lot of variability in C/C++ compilers in how through language 
>> semantics are adhered to.
> 
> 
> 
> There is no variability concerning ISO C++ features these days.

You've been lucky then... ;-)

The last time I tried to port any C++ was between VxWorks and Borland... 
complete nightmare! And that wasn't so long ago...

But YMMV.

Cheers

-- Martin