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- From: blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 23 Feb 1996 18:33:04 GMT
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- In-reply-to: gentrj@sage3101-21.its.rpi.edu's message of 23 Feb 1996 02:23:31 GMT
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- In article <4gj8f3$mr4@usenet.rpi.edu> gentrj@sage3101-21.its.rpi.edu (Ghost In The Machine) writes:
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- Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
- : Actually the source of this incorrect viewpoint often stems from lack
- : of familiarity with C++ (you can sort of guess this from anyone who
- : writes C/C++ as though it were one language). It is remarkable how many
- : people think they know C++ becaus they program in it, and yet they are
- : unaware of exceptions, namespaces and the standard template library.
- : And try seeing how many C++ programmers really understand the overloading
- : semantics in C++.
-
- Hmmm ... a professor at mine is one of the fine fellows who developed
- the standard template library. That right there would lead me to
- believe that he "understands" C++ by your estimation. He also seems
- to recognize the features of exceptions, namespaces, etc. Yet, he
- has been talking in class the past several classes about Ada95's
- advantages over C++. So, it would seem that not everyone who says
- that Ada95 is better then C++ simply "doesn't understand C++" ....
-
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't is the case that Robert is arguing
- against those who say "C/C++ is better than Ada" and not the other way
- around?
-
- --
- -Matthias
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