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,fc52c633190162e0
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: why learn C?
References: <1172144043.746296.44680@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
	<slrnetr31o.875.Marc.Boyer@localhost.localdomain>
	<1172161751.573558.24140@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
	<slrnetri6j.875.Marc.Boyer@localhost.localdomain>
	<546qkhF1tr7dtU1@mid.individual.net>
	<slrnett8ph.807.Marc.Boyer@localhost.localdomain>
	<5ZULh.48$YL5.40@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>
	<1175215906.645110.217810@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
	<rOudnecT2dxOEZHbnZ2dnUVZ_qupnZ2d@comcast.com>
	<1175230700.925143.28490@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
	<sa4d52ntlj8.fsf@margay.local>
	<1175494583.376672.93730@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:18 +1000
Message-ID: <sa43b3iiay5.fsf@margay.local>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:6dmXU9PRCWlpD+ByW+44lQgypSU=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
NNTP-Posting-Host: snoopy.microcomaustralia.com.au
X-Trace: quokka.wn.com.au 1175558383 202.173.153.89 (3 Apr 2007 07:59:43
 +0800)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@westnet.com.au
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!quokka.wn.com.au!not-for-mail
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14752
Date: 2007-04-03T10:00:18+10:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

>>>>> "kevin" == kevin cline <kevin> writes:

    kevin> Because Ada generics have to be explicitly instantiated.
    kevin> Ada requires an explicit instantiation for every
    kevin> combination of types that appears in the program.  C++
    kevin> template functions are implicitly instantiated, and can be
    kevin> defined once to cover all combinations of physical units,
    kevin> like this:

It is a compromise between:

- having a language where you are forced to be specific about the
details OR

- having a language where the compiler tries to guess what you meant.

Personally I prefer the first option, as I have found the second
option hides bugs.

Many programmers prefer the later, which is (presumably) why languages
like Perl, PHP, Python and ASP are so popular.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>