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!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!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> From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Date: 05 Mar 2005 18:14:02 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 Mar 2005 18:14:07 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.120.31.204 X-Trace: 1110042847 news.wanadoo.fr 19328 82.120.31.204:1259 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8655 comp.lang.c++:44181 comp.realtime:940 comp.software-eng:4471 Date: 2005-03-05T18:14:07+01:00 List-Id: "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 This is generally not true. It is true that there is less Ada developers than C++ but there is enough for the demand. I have never had problems finding Ada developers for my projects. > - You might end up making more mistakes with Ada because of > inexperience with Ada. Leaning curve in Ada is not as steep as for C++. Of course a beginner will never be as good as an experienced programmer in whatever language. But Ada has less traps than other languages on the market. The compiler will help catch lot of them... > - Ada tools will fall short of the extensive set of C++ related tools. That's a good point to keep in mind. Even if it easy to build binding to existing libraries in C/C++ this will require some times. 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