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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
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- From: dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck)
- Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.151346.5563@lth.se>
- Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server)
- Organization: Department of Automatic Control, Lund, Sweden
- References: <1992Sep11.164402.7141@seas.gwu.edu> <OBRY.92Sep14094032@cheesesteak.flash.bellcore.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:13:46 GMT
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- In <comp.lang.ada> obry@flash.bellcore.com (Pascal Obry) writes:
- >
- > ... so they chose C++ (yes, they think it's the
- >good old C plus something so it should be good too ... bad mistake no !)
- >
- > ... they have no good reason to choose C++ but they chose it ...
-
- Well, I guess "gradual transition" is a reasonable argument. I assume
- that integrating Ada with existing C code must be (somewhat) harder
- than integrating C++ code with existing C code, in particular if you
- start using C++ as a "better C."
-
- >Like Edmond Schonberg said in is comparison Ada 9x and C++ :
- >
- >" Although the C++ community would never state it so baldly, it appears clear
- >to us that C++ is to some extent a reaction to Ada. By extending C with some
- >of the best ideas of Ada, C++ did in some measure catch up to Ada "
-
- Ed Schonberg also said in public that he thinks C++ is a more powerful
- language than current Ada, and less powerful than Ada 9X. (Stockholm,
- earlier this year).
-