From: gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn)
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/18
Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gwinn-1802981856480001@dh5055200.res.ray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Feb17.204550.1@eisner
In article <1998Feb17.204550.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> In article <gwinn-1702981842290001@dh5055083.res.ray.com>,
gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes:
>
> > C++ is quite another matter, and I suspect that Ada95 and C++ compilers
> > are of roughly equal complexity, and the languages are of roughly equal
> > difficulty to learn and use. C++ does get more and better press.
>
> Well, C++ also gets worse press. I believe a network search for pitfalls of
> using C++ would produce considerably more results. Was that assignment given
> to someone else in the organization, or is this really a slanted test ?
C++ certainly has its fair share of pitfalls, enriching a number of
authors. I have a number of these books, including the C++ FAQ, and
wouldn't attempt C++ without reading them. These books are quite pointed,
and free of marketing bafflegab, which isn't to say that all C++ compilers
are good.
My bitch is that the corresponding Ada95 books don't seem to exist, for
whatever reason, dooming us to blunder into the same mistakes time after
time. We might wish to learn from the C++ community.
Joe Gwinn
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-15 0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn [this message]
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19 0:00 ` John English
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement nabbasi
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
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