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On 2014-07-06 18:15, Brad Moore wrote:

> I think another path to Ada popularity would be to raise awareness of
> the differences.
> 
> There was a paper entitled "C++? A Critique of C++ and Programming
> Language Trends of the 1990s." by Ian Joyner written way back in 1996,
> available in numerous places on the web, including here:
> 
> http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cppcv3.pdf
> 
> The paper is written by someone who obviously has a strong knowledge of
> Eiffel and C++, but raised some good criticisms which I think mostly
> still would apply today.

FWIW, I think Joyner's document is terrible. In fact I wrote a somewhat
long "Critique of Critique of C++" that I'd be willing to email to
anyone who might be interested. My opinion is that Joyner does not
understand C++ particularly well at all and that, in fact, he has
several "fringe" ideas about what constitutes good programming language
design. He work makes him appear to be a quack.

While I agree that C++ has issues, quoting Joyner's document just
weakens one's arguments.

Peter