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!news1.google.com!proxad.net!teaser.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <42309456$1@news.broadpark.no> <1110517093.881184.281320@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> From: Pascal Obry Date: 11 Mar 2005 08:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Mar 2005 08:32:12 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.120.20.219 X-Trace: 1110526332 news.wanadoo.fr 19340 82.120.20.219:1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9106 comp.lang.c++:45082 comp.realtime:1249 comp.software-eng:4817 Date: 2005-03-11T08:32:12+01:00 List-Id: "Jerry Coffin" writes: > Short of using things like casts that are designed specifically to > _prevent_ the compiler from giving warnings (and which have their > counterparts in Ada) what practices on the "wrong side" do you see that > a C++ compiler can't warn about? We have already had a long thread about that! > Thinking of Java as a safer C++ betrays misundertanding of one (or That's not a misunderstanding. That's how Sun has described Java. They started from C++ and have removed many unsafe features. They eventually stop the process at some point and this has given birth to Java. That's history. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595