From: Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 02:58:53 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-07-02T02:58:53-07:00 [thread overview]
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Thanks, Maciej, you've just put a big smile in my face:-)
Kouaoua, I'm afraid I am even more radical than Maciej: the least bad C++ style possible has nothing to do with Ada.
It takes a formidable C++ programmer to write in the least bad C++ style possible. Like one in a million. Because it is necessary to understand the entire language (one in a thousand programmers), and then be able to pick the least bad idioms all the time (one in a thousand of the former thousandth).
/* I myself used to be a (forced) knowledgeable C++ programmer, but that was some time ago, and since then C++ has grown in its kludginess beyond my capacity. However I'm am fortunate(?) enough to have colleagues in at least the first thousandth, heading for the second. */
Sorry to say, Kouaoua, you're in a very difficult spot. Teaching the whole of C++ (necessary for the least bad style) is a doomed endeavour unless it is a 4-semester programme or so.
For one semester you must choose a fragment (probably classes), and relegate style issues to "further reading".
(Whereas in Ada you can take a fragment and keep the good style.)
In sum, and to the point, I see nothing you can transpose from Ada.
Except, maybe, promote a bit of Ada, in between the lines, a propos problems that arise (a soft, maybe feasible, version of Luke's unfeasible proposal of turning the table completely).
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2018-06-30 18:04 Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? kouaoua16
2018-06-30 18:15 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-06-30 19:27 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-30 19:07 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-01 16:12 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-01 17:08 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-07-01 19:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-02 6:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-01 20:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-01 21:35 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-02 5:56 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-02 9:58 ` Marius Amado-Alves [this message]
2018-07-02 11:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-02 13:52 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-04 12:10 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-02 20:14 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-03 9:48 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-04 2:52 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-02 18:52 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 8:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-03 12:40 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 20:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 3:10 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 7:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 8:37 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-04 12:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 14:13 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-04 14:56 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 15:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 16:24 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-04 20:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-07-05 18:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-07-06 18:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-04 20:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 21:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 5:49 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 7:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 13:14 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 15:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 19:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-07 15:09 ` Lucretia
2018-07-05 19:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 20:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 19:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-06 19:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 7:43 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-05 18:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:06 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-06 18:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 20:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 18:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-06 19:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-06 20:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-07 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-07 11:53 ` Björn Lundin
2018-07-06 20:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 23:26 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-07 6:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-07 6:37 ` Micronian Coder
2018-07-07 8:48 ` Privacy and child packages (Was: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-07-07 20:19 ` Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-08 15:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-08 20:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-09 9:04 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-05 15:30 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 20:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 21:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 18:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-04 16:01 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-04 17:12 ` G. B.
2018-07-04 20:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 21:03 ` G.B.
2018-07-04 17:21 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 20:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 22:44 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 2:01 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-07-05 5:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 5:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 19:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 18:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-06 3:32 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-06 12:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-06 20:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 21:32 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-07 20:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-08 17:36 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-08 18:39 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-08 19:28 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 12:34 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-09 15:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 19:34 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-09 22:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 22:35 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-10 1:56 ` Lucretia
2018-07-10 23:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-11 14:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-11 20:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-08 20:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-08 23:17 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 6:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-09 16:35 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-10 23:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-10 23:51 ` Britt
2018-07-02 17:10 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-02 17:28 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-07-02 18:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-02 20:27 ` G.B.
2018-07-02 0:11 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-02 14:26 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-02 19:57 ` G.B.
2018-07-02 20:17 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 9:56 ` Brian Drummond
2018-07-04 12:18 ` Olivier Henley
2018-07-04 14:17 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-12 5:38 ` robin.vowels
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