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From: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@example.com>
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:01:20 +0000, adaworks wrote:

> I am suggesting that the code will be less-than obvious to many C++
> programmers. Certainly, after careful study, the experienced C++
> programmer might be able to read your example, but there is room for
> misinterpretation unless one is supplied a fair amount of documentation.

I haven't read this entire thread, but I just paged back up to your Ada
example and read both it and Ioannis' C++ example.  I'm a C++ developer by
trade, and don't know Ada, but, yes, the Ada example was extremely
readable.  So was the C++ example: the intent of both programs was
immediately clear.

This doesn't mean either example is inherently clear, just that a random
passer-by found both of them to be clear.