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- From: dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 16 Feb 96 10:36:04 GMT
- Organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
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- Sorry Ramses, I have to disagree...
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- ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) writes:
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- >Another thing not mentioned is that Ada is far more complicated to learn
- >fully than is C/C++.
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- WRT C you may be right, but current C++ is in no way simpler than Ada
- 95. If you do not need tasking, you can leave it out.
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- >The complexity of the language can add to an increase
- >in the probabilty of bugs being introduced and also adds to an increase in
- >project maintanace costs.
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- Are you talking about C++? :-) You really have to show me in what way
- Ada makes errors more probable than C/C++. (For C, I could cite
- Gerald R. Morris with a nice list, mail me, if interested.)
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- Dirk
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