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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
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On 13 Mar 2005 10:41:16 -0800, Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote:

> Ada certainly provides facilities useful for writing libraries, but at
> least to me seems to fall into the former group -- it works well for
> writing code directly, but attempting to write good libraries in it
> tends to be frustrating.


Interesting way of thinking about things.  But for writing libraries, I  
tend to prefer Ada and Eiffel (in that order).  I don't really see what  
leads to the frustration you talk about above - wouldn't mind hearing your  
opinions about that.
Admittedly, creating a library written in either of these two languages  
for use by other languages requires some special steps in packaging, but  
they can be easily automated.  Java, of course, requires anything written  
in other languages to be specially packaged for it to be a client (perhaps  
excepting components accessible via RMI or another component model).  And  
most component models require special packaging anyway.

- Ed