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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 18:48:48 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Dave Weller said
-
- "Compared to C++? You are wrong. There are fewer features in C++, yet
- the (draft) reference manual is larger than Ada 95 (not that this is
- necessarily a good measure, but rather that a language that is less
- complex would hopefully require less "langauge" to specify it). My
- personal experience with Ada 95 and C++ indicates the exact opposite
- of your conclusion. I have a feeling you haven't used Ada 95 very
- much to make such claims."
-
- 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++.
-
- I have seen so-called "C++" programs that were litte more than C programs
- with C++ style comments :-)
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