Re: Ada and C++: A request for comparison/contrast/relative benifits

[alice!bs@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bjarne Stroustrup)]

mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman @ George Washington University) write

 > Let's keep going with facts; flames to /dev/null.

To achieve this lofty goal I think Ada proponents have to avoid a few things
that occur frequently in comp.lang.ada - even in postings from the more sober
members. The most obvious is:

	Don't demonstrate an advantage of Ada over C and from that conclude
	that Ada is therefore superior to C++.

This is an invitation to a counterflame because C++ programmers will interprete
it as either plain ignorance (commonly the real reason) or manipulation by
presentation of selective facts.