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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/15
Date: 1999-12-15T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccpuw8xrzv.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1999Dec14.143953.1@eisner

kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> If conversions get that numerous, it is a sign of bad design.

I don't agree.  If you have:

    type A1 is access all T1'Class;
    type A2 is access all T2'Class;

where "T2 is new T1 with ...", then it is perfectly natural to want to
convert from A2 to A1.  It is not a sign of bad design at all.  But Ada
requires an explicit type conversion in this case, which is a flaw in
Ada.

This one flaw is not enough to make me switch to C++, though.

> One can code Fortran in any language.  Coding C in Ada is much
> worse than coding C in C.

- Bob




  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-26  0:00 Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Robert
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
1999-11-26  0:00   ` Andreas Winckler
1999-11-26  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-04  0:00   ` Richard D Riehle
     [not found]     ` <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-10  0:00       ` Chris Powell
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Simon Wright
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-01-12  0:00                 ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-15  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-20  0:00               ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-12-16  0:00             ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Rakesh Malhotra
1999-12-21  0:00                 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-21  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-13  0:00         ` DuckE
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-14  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-15  0:00                   ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-15  0:00           ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-15  0:00             ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-21  0:00             ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-22  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-14  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-23  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-23  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-27  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-27  0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-12-14  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-15  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-15  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-16  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-16  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-17  0:00     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-18  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-20  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22  0:00 Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ ( Ehud Lamm
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