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: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!12.120.4.37!attcg2!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 5 Mar 2005 13:52:01 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1110052218 10296 192.135.80.34 (5 Mar 2005 19:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8663 comp.lang.c++:44201 comp.realtime:947 comp.software-eng:4478 Date: 2005-03-05T13:52:01-06:00 List-Id: In article <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "EventHelix.com" writes: > What specific features are you missing in C++. Before moving > to Ada consider this: > > - It will be hard to find developers for Ada To hire developers who are incapable of learning a second language is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. If that were the case, I would hope the product is not one on which I will ever depend. > - You might end up making more mistakes with Ada because of > inexperience with Ada. But if you do, they will typically be caught at compile-time.