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- From: JR Crosmer <rainbow@inav.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 21:44:39 -0600
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- Ray Toal wrote:
- >
- > ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:
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- > >(4) C++ in particular has been changing very rapidly. It seems as if every
- > > time I turn around there is a new keyword.
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- What is the status of the plain/ordinary/but very noticably forgotten boolean?
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- It seems that the biggest difficutly that run into is that everybody needs/wants to
- declare a new version (and they are not all compatible!). Because C/C++ were never
- polite enough to provide it to begin with (0 or non-zero is hardly a good substitute)
- we end up either creating the (ITEM, NON_ITEM) form, create yet another version
- (my latest is BooleaN, { FalsE, TruE } ). I think I remember something about
- BOOL in one of the C or C++ stds. Which compilers use it? (Borland does not,
- at least thru 4.0).
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- As you can tell from the tone of this post, I would be much happier to have a language
- that provides a few comforts and niceties, i.e., Ada, but I haven't yet been able to
- convince my cohorts and managers to come along.
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- JR Crosmer
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- [Loving Ada, but not using IT!]
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