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: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Sender: malo@0x535ba1b6.boanxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110053977.478846@athnrd02> From: Mark Lorenzen Date: 05 Mar 2005 21:24:25 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: TDC Totalloesninger NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.91.161.182 X-Trace: 1110054268 dtext02.news.tele.dk 157 83.91.161.182:6991 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8671 comp.lang.c++:44209 comp.realtime:955 comp.software-eng:4486 Date: 2005-03-05T21:24:25+01:00 List-Id: Ioannis Vranos writes: > Mark Lorenzen wrote: > > > You can do everything in Ada that you can in C and C++. > > > I suppose you mean in the application-programming domain. But I do not > think this is true in the systems programming domain, that is > efficiency under *severe* run-time and space constraints. Why? I see no reason that an executable programmed in Ada should be a slow or big? > > > Also I am not sure if ADA is suitable for library writing, or you will > have to switch to another language to do that. Why? Regards, - Mark Lorenzen