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!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 11 Mar 2005 09:00:15 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: 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> <42303F7D.9080704@mailinator.com> <1110527549.194857.300000@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01-e.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1110549617 18922 69.38.147.31 (11 Mar 2005 14:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:00:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9133 comp.lang.c++:45132 comp.realtime:1276 comp.software-eng:4842 Date: 2005-03-11T09:00:15-05:00 List-Id: "Hans Malherbe" writes: > >"Interesting", indeed. ;-) Unfortunately, about half of this > >information is complete nonsense -- about both languages! > > I would like to believe that people like you would point out the > nonsense preventing people like me from consuming it. A fair comment. I *did* post a few notes in this thread trying to set some things straight. And I might post a few more, if I have time. But how do you know whether to trust what *I* say over what anyone else says? ;-) If you really want to know about these languages that are being discussed (Ada and C++) nothing beats reading a textbook or two. - Bob