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-Thread: 103376,ab1d177a5a26577d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:14 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <104cfd9f-dbf5-4f05-9c4a-a2319dd371a9@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <4d5d0c16$0$6972$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4d5d4cde$0$13901$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="12654"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zHEyCQbA4nGlkYsROqPus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <4d5d4cde$0$13901$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:DDA/iWapFMjBpCMU8qyRL6kK7EU= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18350 Date: 2011-02-17T23:50:14+01:00 List-Id: Le 17/02/2011 17:29, Hyman Rosen a �crit : > There in a nutshell is what all language wars come to: > My favorite language has powerful features which could > be misused, but no one would do that. Your favorite > language has unfortunate features which render all > programs written in it unreliable and incomprehensible. This is not fair: in any language, you can have misleading names. On this point, Ada is just like all other ones. But macro-processing was forbidden by the requirements for Ada - for good reasons. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00