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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,198c6302c4a0b0d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-20 12:27:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3c1dc786@pull.gecm.com> <1008601517.470745@edh3> <1008626816.690418@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1008690461.380980@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <_T4U7.8959$xl6.991260@rwcrnsc54> Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:27:05 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:27:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18167 Date: 2001-12-20T20:27:05+00:00 List-Id: In article <_T4U7.8959$xl6.991260@rwcrnsc54>, Mark Lundquist says... > > >"Hyman Rosen" wrote in message >news:1008690461.380980@master.nyc.kbcfp.com... >>[snip...] >> The paper argues that C++'s lack of a standard for multi- >> tasking and real-time programming leads to the use of ad-hoc, >> unportable, and incomplete libraries. It fails to mention that >> Ada's lack of standard containers and algorithms leads to the >> same (as witness the unending List Strawman thread). > >That's a cheap shot! :-) It's too early to say that that thread is >"unending" (sort of like the halting problem :-). But its a fair one, in that his point was that this stuff is *already* standard in C++. You'd be hard-pressed to prove that concurrency is more important to the average developer than containers. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.