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!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: 12 Mar 2005 17:33:01 -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> <1110508346.652721.170680@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1110514017.501621@athnrd02> <1110516828.659184.229280@f14g2000cwb.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 1110666783 8714 69.38.147.31 (12 Mar 2005 22:33:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:33:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9267 comp.lang.c++:45357 comp.realtime:1391 comp.software-eng:4955 Date: 2005-03-12T17:33:01-05:00 List-Id: "fabio de francesco" writes: > B.Stroustrup wrote in his "C++ Programming Language" that He was partly > inspired by Ada (and by a misterious to me "Clu") in creating C++ > templates and exceptions. Does it mean these languages are closer than > everyone would expect? Yes, these languages (C++ and Ada) are quite similar in many ways, and both borrowed something from each other. To a programmer familiar with Common Lisp or ML or many others, the arguments in this endless thread must seem pretty silly. Kind of like arguing whether McDonald's or Burger King is the better restaurant, not knowing about any others. On the other hand, *those* languages also have serious flaws, too. Clu is definitely worth learning. - Bob