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From: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org (Colin Paul Gloster)
Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq
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In article <3eace266.980990@news.btclick.com>, John McCabe wrote:
"[..] What is also not addressed in
the original message is what experience the team did have prior to its
use of C++. If it had been something like Pascal, Modula-2 etc (i.e.
those languages that were similar to Ada) then moving to Ada could
have been a relatively straightforward transition however moving to
C++ could have been far more difficult."

The converse can also be true: being familiar with a similar language can
cause a problem when syntatically similar constructs in both have
different meanings, as moaned by a curly braces {} programmer on the main
email list of the Association of C & C++ Users in the last few months. For
example, doing a project now in Java and porting it later to C++ unaware
that C++ methods are not by default virtual.