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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_NUMERIC_TLD, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,bab58563a24f525a X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: nobody@0.0 (Peter) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433109642 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CAB38.404C0610@praxis-cs.co.uk> <77nhuv$29c$3@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <77nhuv$29c$3@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) wrote: > Here my quick comparison between Ada95, Java, and C++, from someone > who has used all three languages: > > Object Orientation: > > All three are full OO languages. Uhhh... well actually none of those languages are full OO languages because the primitive data types in them aren't objects. > One distinguishing feature of Ada is that it gives very good > low-level control about numerical types and numerical precision > in a very portable way. C/C++ programmers have to use a lot of dirty > tricks or configuration files to obtain assurances that Ada > programmers can just specify directly to the compiler. I would like to find out more about how Ada handles this. Where does the Ada standard live?