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: 103376,599b13f801b0f9eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-26 04:57:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ virtual function mechanism in Ada ? Message-ID: References: <8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107260244.3cd9e5b3@posting.google.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 26 Jul 2001 07:57:27 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996148650 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:57:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:57:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10590 Date: 2001-07-26T07:57:27-05:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0107260244.3cd9e5b3@posting.google.com>, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: > Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<8TC4uKLBjMDq@eisner.encompasserve.org>... > >> What about those of us who chose Ada before there was a C++ ? > > Hmmm! There can't be too many people in that category, if any. The > Ada language was standardized in 1983, the same year that the initial > version of C++ was finalized (work on C++ had started in 1980). But the common excuse for no C++ interface in Ada95 is that there was no C++ standard. Of course when I talk about the existance of a language, I mean with a compiler available for an operating system on which I want to use it.