Re: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?]

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <cppCx20IA.Anx@netcom.com>, Robin Rowe <cpp@netcom.com> wrote:
><< In the meantime, I have a responsibility to write reliable software.  
>Ada 9X does that for me in ways that C++ folks are now only dreaming 
>about. >>
>
>What Ada 9X dreams am I supposed to be having? How about a 
>list of ways that Ada 9X can make more reliable software 
>than C++?
>

Is this a serious question?

	Range checking, Type checking within generics, standardized
	concurrency, safe pointers, etc.

Looking at your .sig, I can't tell if the question is serious or if
you're trolling.  Let's try it this way, here's a couple of papers
to read that present a fairly unbiased comparison:

"A Comparison of the OO features of Ada9x and C++" in springer lecture
notes in cs: "Ada Europe93" pp.125-141 (short paper, good reading,
enlightens paradigmae)  

Also, look at the paper 9x-cplus.txt under /public/ada9x/reports/misc
on ajpo.sei.cmu.edu.


Neither paper should be treated as a complete survey.  Further,
neither paper delves into the "corners", ie, support for
distribution, information systems, numerics, real-time programming,
etc.  All of which are standardized in the Annexes.

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