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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b6619eb9cada212 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Preben Randhol Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Date: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560583448 References: <01bf37fb$a91afb60$0564a8c0@IS-D2D04C.test> <829rbv$a8m$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe> <385112AE.7E2CFA9@rdel.co.uk> <38564CD6.F13F69FB@rdel.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 945189360 12933 129.241.83.82 (14 Dec 1999 16:36:00 GMT) Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Dec 1999 16:36:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T16:36:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris Powell writes: | If I were to choose Ada 95 for OO programming I would have a safer | program, at the expense of more obscure OO syntax. So, in order to use | the syntax that I prefer, ie. C++, I need to find ways to make C++ | programs safer and one way is to use the STL. I don't see what is so obscure. One thing that is important is that Ada is designed so that the source code should be as readable as possible. Therefore it might be a bit more verbose than C/C++, which are not that easy to read most of the time. At least not if you try read others code. | Interestingly, many of the OO related pitfalls are evident in Ada 95 and | C++, because the way the two languages work is not actually that | different, for example attempting to override a method, but mis-typing | the name in the derived class making it a new method rather than an | overriden one. What is your solution to this? To me it sounds like the programmer does not proof-read his code if this is a _real_ problem. :-) | I have posted one example. I guess it comes down to how important you | think programming elegance is, compared to intrinsic safety. I feel I am Some actually like Perl too :-) -- Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling." -- Athol Fugard