Re: C# new features (v.7)

[Hadrien Grasland <hadrien.grasland@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 15 décembre 2016 13:49:20 UTC+1, Alejandro R. Mosteo a écrit :
> On 14/12/16 20:28, Shark8 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 6:29:47 AM UTC-7, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >> I've come across a list of new features in the upcoming version of C#.
> >> Funnily, a good half are already in Ada - four of them actually already in Ada 1983 !
> >
> > That's really interesting, and slightly funny, and slightly sad.
> 
> It's very sad. I can't say how much I miss range-constrained numeric 
> types in Java/C++. Another Ada'83-ism to be rediscovered.
> 
> And tasking? Every time I see C++ people fumbling with low-level 
> semaphores I want to cry. No language (that I know) comes even near Ada 
> tasks + protected combo. No wonder multithreading is sold as some kind 
> of miracle when some program uses it properly.

To be fair, Ada has no equivalent to C++'s portable atomics either. C++ these days is mostly marketed as a low-level infrastructure to build performance-critical libraries in, whereas Ada is more designed like a high-level end-user solution, and these diverging design goals lead to different design choices.


> Sad Álex.